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. 30. No law passed by the Gen-
eral 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; and
in case any public law is made to take
effect before the said first day of June,
the General Assembly shall provide for
the immediate publication of the same.
Sec. 31. No money shall be drawn
from the treasury of the State, except in
accordance with an appropriation by
law, and every such law shall distinctly
specify the sum appropriated, and the
object to which it shall be applied; pro-
vided that nothing herein contained
shall prevent the General Assembly from
placing a contingent fund at the dis-
posal of the Executive, who shall report
to the General Assembly at each session
the amount expended, and the pur-
poses to which it was applied; an accur-
ate statement of the receipts and ex-
penditures of the public money shall be
attached to and published with the laws,
after each regular session of the General
Assembly.
Sec. 32. The General Assembly shall
not pass local or special laws in any of
the following enumerated cases, viz:
For the assessment and collection of
taxes for State or county purposes, or
extending the time for the collection of
taxes;
Providing for the support of the pub-
lic schools;
The preservation of school funds;
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The location or the regulation of
school houses;
Granting divorces;
Relating to fees or salaries;
Relating to the interest on money;
Providing for regulating the election
or compensation of State or county
officers;
Or designating the places of voting;
Or the boundaries of election districts;
Providing for the sale of real estate
belonging to minors or other persons
laboring under legal disabilities, by ex-
ecutors, 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 offi-
cers of the treasury department;
Or establishing, locating or affecting
the construction of roads,, and the re-
pairing or building of bridges.
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 first session after the adoption of this
Constitution, shall pass general laws
providing for the cases enumerated in
this section, and for all other cases where
a general law can be made applicable.
Sec. 33. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly,
unless such debt shall be authorized by
a law providing for the collection of an
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