the General Assembly, in amending any article or section of
the Code of Laws of this State, to enact the same as the said
article or section would read when amended. And whenever
the General Assembly shall enact any Public General Law,
not amendatory of any section or article in the said Code, it
shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact the same,
in articles and sections, in the same manner as the Code is ar-
ranged, and to provide for the publication of all additions and
alterations which may be made to the said Code.

SEC. 30. Every bill, when passed by the General Assem-
bly, and sealed with the Great Seal, shall be presented to the
Governor, who, if he approves it, shall sign the same in the
presence of the presiding officers and chief clerks of the Senate
and House of Delegates. Every law shall be recorded in the
office of the Court of Appeals, and in due time be printed,
published and certified under the Great Seal, to the several
courts, in the same manner as has been heretofore usual in
this State.

SEC. 31. No law passed by the General Assembly shall
take effect until the first day of June next after the session at
which it may be passed, unless it be otherwise expressly de-
clared therein.

SEC. 32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of
the State by any order or resolution, nor except in accord-
ance with an appropriation by law; and every such law shall
distinctly specify the sum appropriated and object to which
it shall be applied; provided, that nothing herein contained
shall prevent the General Assembly from placing a contingent
fund at the disposal of the Executive, who shall report to the
General Assembly at each session the amount expended, and
the purposes to which it was applied. An accurate statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the public money shall
be attached to and published with the laws after each regular
session of the General Assembly.

SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall not pass local or
special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, viz.:
For extending the time for the collection of taxes, granting
divorces, changing the name of any person, providing for the
sale of real estate belonging to minors or other persons labor-
ing under legal disabilities, by executors, administrators,
guardians or trustees, giving effect to informal or invalid
deeds or wills, refunding money paid into the State Treasury,
or releasing persons from their debts or obligations to the
State, unless recommended by the Governor or officers of the
Treasury Department. And the General Assembly shall pass
no special law for any case for which provision has been made
by an existing general law. The General Assembly, at its