compensation for such slaves, and to receive and distribute
the same equitably to the persons entitled.
SEC. 38. No person shall be imprisoned for debt.
SEC. 39. The General Assembly shall grant no charter for
banking purposes, nor renew any banking corporation now
in existence, except upon the condition that the stockholders
shall be liable to the amount of their respective share or shares
of stock in such banking institution, for all its debts and
liabilities upon note, bill or otherwise; the books, papers and
accounts of all banks shall be open to inspection under such
regulations as may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 40. The General Assembly shall enact no law author-
izing private property to be taken for public use, without just
compensation as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded
by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled
to such compensation.

SEC. 40A. The General Assembly shall enact no law au-
thorizing private property to be taken for public use without
just compensation, to be agreed upon between the parties or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation, but where such property is
situated in Baltimore city and is desired by this State or by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the General Assem-
bly may provide for the appointment of appraisers by a Court
of Becord to value such property, and that, upon payment of
the amount of such valuation to the party entitled to compen-
sation, or into Court and securing the payment of any further
sum that may be awarded by a jury, such property may be
taken.*

SEC. 41. Any citizen of this State who shall, after the
adoption of this Constitution, either in or out of this State,
fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or accept a chal-
lenge so to do, or who shall act as a second, or knowingly aid
or assist in any manner those offending, shall ever thereafter
be incapable of holding any office of profit or trust under this
State, unless relieved from the disability by an Act of the
Legislature.

SEC. 42. The General Assembly shall pass laws necessary
for the preservation of the purity of elections.

SEC. 43. The property of the wife shall be protected from
the debts of her husband.

SEC. 44. Laws shall be passed by the General Assembly to
protect from execution a reasonable amount of the property
of the debtor, not exceeding in value the sum of five hundred
dollars.

* Thus added by Chapter 402, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 4, 1913.