354 MARYLAND MANUAL.
Art. Sec.
Election of Delegates ............- ..................................... 3 6, 7
Classification of Senators .................................................... 3 8
Qualification of members....................................................... 3 8
Persons 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, for use of
members ................-......................................... 3 16
Disqualified to hold other offices................................... 3 17
Freedom of debate ................................ 3 18
Powers of each house ............................................... 3 19
Quorum ...................................................................................- 3 20
Sessions to be open ........................................ 3 21
Journals to be published -....................................--...... 3 22
Imprisonment of disorderly persons.......................... 3 23
Powers of House, as grand inquest..--...........-..... 3 24
.special adjournments ..................... 3 23
Impeachments ....................... 3 28
Either 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 .1.1
Debts, what not to be contracted -- .-...... 3 34
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 31
May borrow fifty thousand dollars without laying
tax, when ..... ....................... 3 31
May contract debts for defence of the State....... 3 34
No extra compensation to be allowed to.......... 3 33
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
debts ......... ......... 3 43
Exemption laws ................. 3 44
Uniform system of charges by Clerks and Registers
of Wills ............................ .... 3 45
May receive land from United States......-... 3 40
Contested elections, may provide for. 3 47
Regulation of elections by law-----....................... 3 4S
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
Beports of Comptroller and Treasurer to............. 8 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........- ........ 20
Of each House required to pass bills.............................. 3 28
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