SEC. 40. The General Assembly shall enact no law author-
izing private property to be taken for public use, without
just compensation as agreed upon between the parties, or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation.

SEC. 40A. The General Assembly shall enact no law au-
thorizing private property to be taken for public use without
just compensation, to be agreed upon between the parties or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation, but where such property is
situated in Baltimore city and is desired by this State or by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the General As-
sembly may provide for the appointment of appraisers by a
Court of Becord to value such property, and that, upon pay-
ment of the amount of such valuation to the party entitled
to compensation, or into Court and securing the payment of
any further sum that may be awarded by a jury, such prop-
erty may be taken.*

Sue. 41. Any citizen of this State who shall, after the
adoption of this Constitution, either in or out of this State,
fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or accept a chal-
lenge so to do, or who shall act as a second, or knowingly aid
or assist in any manner those offending, shall ever thereafter
be incapable of holding any office of profit or trust under this
State, unless relieved from the disability by an Act of the
Legislature.

SEC. 42. The General Assembly shall pass laws necessary
for the preservation of the purity of elections.

SEC. 43. The property of the wife shall be protected from
the debts of her husband.

SEC. 44. Laws shall be passed by the General Assembly to
protect from execution a reasonable amount of the property
of the debtor, not exceeding in value the sum of five hundred
dollars.

SEC. 45. 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 the said officers in the
various counties shall not exceed the sum of three thousand
dollars a year, and in the city of Baltimore, thirty-five hun-
dred dollars a year, over and above office expenses and com-
pensation to assistants; and provided, further, that such
compensation of Clerks, Registers, assistants and office ex-

• Thus added by Chapter 402, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 4, 1913.