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MARYLAND MMWAL. 383 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. SEC. 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 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 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thereof within fifteen years from the time of contracting the same; and the taxes laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or applied to any other object until the said debt and interest thereon shall be fully dis charged.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 given, or loaned to, or in aid of any individual association or corporation; nor shall the General Assembly have the power in any mode to involve the State in the construction of works of internal improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto, which shall involve the faith or credit of the State; nor make any appropriation therefor, except in aid of the construction of works of internal improvement in the counties of St. Mary’s, Charles and Calvert, which have had no direct ad vantage from such works as have been heretofore aided by the State; and provided that such aid, advances or appro |
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