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in the office of the Court of Appeals, and in due time be
printed, published and certified under the Great Steal, 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
declared 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 contin-
gent fund at the disposal of the Executive, who shall report
to the General Assembly at each session the amount ex-
pended, and the purposes to which it was applied. An accu-
rate 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.
Sue. 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 ease for which provision has .been
made by an existing general law. The General Assembly, .at
its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall
pass general laws providing for the cases enumerated in this
section which are not already adequately provided for, and
for all other cases where a general law can be made appli-
cable.
SEC. 34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the Gen-
eral Assembly unless such debt shall be authorized by a law
providing for the collection of an annual tax or taxes suffi-
cient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also
to discharge the principal thereof within fifteen years from
the time of contracting the same; and the taxes laid for this
purpose shall not be repealed or applied to any other object
until the said debt and interest thereon shall be fully dis-
charged. The credit of the State shall not in any manner be
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