372 MARYLAND MANUAL.
Art. Sec.
Election of Delegates ................................................ 3 6, 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 16
Disqualified to hold other offices............................. 3 17
Freedom of debate ............................................ 3 38
Powers of each house............................................ 3 18
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
Either House may originate bills......................... 3 27
Passage of bills ............................................................... 3 28
Style of laws and mode of enactment...................... 3 20
Mode of attesting laws................................................ 3 30
When laws to take effect........................................- 3 31
Appropriations of money to be made by law............ 8 32
Contingent fund of Governor.......................................... 8 32
Statement of use of public money to be published.... 3 32
Divorces not to be granted by.................. 8 33
Local and special laws, what not to be passed-.... 3 33
Debts, what not to be contracted.................................. 3 34
Credit of State not to be granted, when.............................. 1 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................... 8 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
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 46
Contested elections, may provide for...................... 3 47
Regulation of elections by law...................................... 3 48
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 tor 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................. 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........................... 3 20
Of each House required to pass bills.................... 3 28
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