MARYLAND MANUAL. 251
Art. Sec.
Legislature—Extra sessions of. ..................... 2 18
May pass laws over veto of Governor,........... 2 17
Recommendations from Governor to.............. 2 19
Governor to report to, reasons tor pardon......... 2 20
To consist of two branches. ..................... 3 1
Election and classification of Senators............ 3 2
Appointment of Delegates...................... 3 3-5
Election of Delegates.......................... 3 6,7
Suspension of criminal sentences, indeterminate
sentences, release and parole of prisoners, , . . . 3 60
Classification of Senators. ...................... 3 8
Qualifications of members...................... 3 9
Persons Ineligible to........................... 3 10-12
Vacancies, how to be filled...................... 3 13
Time of meeting.............................. 3 14
Time of adjournment.......................... 3 15
Compensation of members of................... 3 15
What books not to be purchased by, for use of
members ................................ 3 16
Disqualified to hold other offices................. 3 17
Freedom of debate............................ 3 18
Powers of each House........................ 3 19
Quorum ..................................... 3 20
Sessions to be open............................ 3 21
Journals to be published....................... 3 22
Imprisonment of disorderly persons.............. 3 23
Powers of House, as grand Inquest. .............. 3 24
Special adjournments ......................... 3 25
Impeachments ................................ 3 28
Either House may originate bills................ 3 27
Passage of bills............................... 3 28
Style of laws and mode of enactment. ............ 3 29
Mode of attesting laws......................... 3 30
When laws to take effect. ...................... 3 31
Appropriations of money to be made by law....... 3 32
Contingent fund of Governor.................... 3 32
Statement of use of public money to be published. . 3 32
Divorces not to be granted by................... 3 33
Local and special laws, what not to be passed. . . . . 3 33
Debts, what not to be contracted................ 3 34
Credit of the State not to be granted, when....... 3 34
Proceeds of internal improvement companies and
State tax, to be used to pay public debt. . . . . . 3 34
May borrow fifty thousand dollars without paying
tax, when ............................... 3 34
May contract debts for defence of the State....... 3 34
No extra compensation to be allowed to.......... 3 35
No lottery grant to be authorized by............. 3 38
Payment tor slaves prohibited. .................. 3 37
Imprisonment lor debt prohibited............... 3 38
Restrictions upon power to grant bank charters... 3 39
No law to be passed for the taking of private prop-
erty without compensation.................. 3 40a
Purity of elections............................ 3 42
Wife's property to be protected from husband's
debts .................................... 3 43
Exemption laws .............................. 3 44
Uniform system of charges by Clerks and Registers
of Wills ................................. 3 45
May receive land from United States............ 3 46
Contested elections, may provide for............. 3 47
Regulation of elections by law....,..........,,, 3 49
Bribery of officials to pass laws relating to..,,... 3 50
Taxation of personal property.................. 3 51
Appropriations regulated by budget............. 3 52
Witness not incompetent on account of race or color 3 63
Habeas corpus not to be suspended by........... 3 55
To pass laws to execute vested powers.......... 3 58
Rate of interest may be fixed by................ 3 57
Foreign corporations to be taxed................ 3 58
Address of, to remove Judges.................. 4 4
To provide compensation for Court offleers........ 4 9
May prescribe sessions of Court of Appeals....... 4 14
May provide Judge of Supreme Court In Baltimore. 4 39
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