thus offended, or who has so aided or
assisted those thus offending, since the
first Wednesday of June, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-one, shall ever thereafter
be incapable of holding any office of
trust or profit under this State.
Sec. 41. The General Assembly shall
pass laws for the preservation of the
purity of elections by the registration of
voters, and by such other means as may
be deemed expedient; and to make effec-
tive the provisions of the Constitution
disfranchising certain persons, or dis-
qualifying them from holding office.
Sec. 42. The General Assembly shall
pass laws necessary to protect the prop-
erty of the wife, from the debts of the
husband during her life, and for secur-
ing the same to her issue after her death.
Sec. 43. Laws shall be passed by the
General Assembly to protect from execu-
tion a reasonable amount of property of
a debtor, not exceeding in value the sum
of five hundred dollars.
Sec. 44. The General Assembly shall
provide a simple and uniform system of
charges in the offices of Clerks of Courts
and Registers of Wills, in the counties
of this State and the city of Baltimore,
and for the collection thereof; provided
the amount of compensation to any of
said officers shall not exceed the sum of
twenty-five hundred dollars a year over
and above office expenses, and compen-
sation to assistants; and provided fur-
ther, that such compensation of clerks,
registers, assistants and office expenses,
shall always be paid out of the fees or
receipts of the offices respectively.
Sec. 45. The General Assembly shall
have power to receive from the United
States any grant or donation of land,
money or securities, for any purpose
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designated by the United States, and
shall administer or distribute the same
according to the conditions of the said
grant.
Sec. 46. The General Assembly shall
make provision for all cases of contested
elections of any of the officers not herein
provided for.
Sec. 47. The General Assembly shall
pass laws requiring the president, direc-
tors, trustees, or agents of corporations
created or authorized by the laws of this
State, teachers or superintendents of the
public schools, colleges, or other institu-
tions of learning; attorn eys-at-law,
jurors, and such other persons as the
General Assembly shall from time to
time prescribe, to take the oath of alle-
giance to the United States, set forth
in the first article of this Constitution.
Sec. 48. The General Assembly shall
have power to accept the cession of any
territory contiguous to this State, from
the States of Virginia and West Virginia,
or from the United States, with the con-
sent of Congress, and of the inhabitants
of such ceded territory, and in case of
such cessions the General Assembly may
divide such territory into counties, and
shall provide for the representation of
the same in the General Assembly, on
the basis fixed by this Constitution, and
may for that purpose increase the num-
ber of Senators and Delegates, and the
General Assembly shall enact such laws
as may be required to extend the Con-
stitution and laws of this State over such
territory, and may create courts con-
formably to the Constitution for such
territory, and may for that purpose
increase the number of Judges of the
Court of Appeals.
Sec. 49. The General Assembly shall
provide by law for the registration of
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