MARYLAND MANUAL. 347
Art. Sec.
Election of Delegates .......................................... 3 6,7
Classification of Senators . .........---...--............. 3 8
Qualification of members ............................................. 3 9
Persona 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, tor use of
members ............................................................. 3 18
Disqualified to hold other offlees.................... 3 1
Freedom of debate .............................................. 3 18
Powers of each house ................................ 3 19
Sessions to be open ...................................... 3 2
Journals to be published ......................................... 3 22
Imprisonment of disorderly persons......................... 3 23
Powers of House, as grand inquest..................... 3 24
special adjournments ...............................................- 3 25
Impeachments ................................................ 3 26
Hither 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 33
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 tor 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 for 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
Exemption laws ........................ 3 44
Uniform system of charges by Clerks and Registers
of Wills --.-......................... 3 40
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... 4 40
Coroners, Elisors and Notaries, appointment and
duties may be regulated by.................................... 4 45
Reports of Comptroller and Treasurer to.......................... 6 2-4
Amendments to Constitution by, how made......... 14 1
Librarian, State .. ......... ............ 7 3
Lotteries, prohibited ................. 3 36
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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