MARYLAND MANUAL. 363
Art. Sec.
Election of Delegates .................................................................................... 3 6, 7
Classification of Senators ........................................................................................ 3 8
Qualification of members............................................................................. 3 9
Persons ineligible to .............................................................................. 3 10,11,12
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 inguest........................................ 3 24
Speclal adjournments ....................................................................................... 3 25
Impeachments .................................................................................................................. 3 26
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 laying
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 36
Payment for slaves prohibited.............................................................................3 37
Imprisonment tor 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 40
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 for private claims...................................................................... 3 52
Witness not Incompetent on account of race or color 3 53
Habeas corpus not to be suspended by.................................. 3 55
To pass laws to execute vested powers............. 3 56
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 officers. 4 9
May prescribe sessions of Court of Appeals................ 4 14
May provide Judge of Supreme Court in Baltimore 4 39
To fix compensation of Judges of Orphans' Courts.......
Courts .......................................................................... 4 40
Coroners, Elisors and Notaries, appointment and
duties may be regulated by........................... 4 45
Reports of Comptroller and Treasurer to.... ................................... 0 2-4
Amendments to Constitution by, how made............................ 14 1
Librarian, State ........................................................................... .... 7 3
Lotteries, prohibited ............................................................... 3 38
Lunatics not to be entitled to vote................................................................................... 1 2
Majority of each House to be a quorum............................................................ 3 20
Of each House required to pass bills....................................................... 3 28
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