MARYLAND MANUAL. 363
Art. Sec.
Election of Delegates .............—...—..................... 3 8,7
Classification of Senators - ..... — - —. —... —.. —.... 3 8
Qualification of members . ...—.................—.......................... 3 9
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 10
Disqualified to hold other offices. .... ................ 8 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 ' 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.. ......... .. S 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 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 34
May borrow fifty thousand dollars without laying
tax, when . ......... . ...... 3 34
May contract debts for defence of the State... ...- 3 34
No extra compensation to be allowed to.............. ...... 3 35
No lottery grant to be authorized by. .... ... ........ 3 38
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 Bystem of charges by Clerks and Registers"
of Wills . ............... ..... . 3 45
May receive land from United States............ - - . .. 3 48
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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