MARYLAND MANUAL. 375
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 18
Powers of each house ............................................................ 3 18
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.............. 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 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 36
Payment for slaves prohibited..................................... 3 37
Imprisonment for debt prohibited.......... 3 38
Restrictions upon power to grant bank charters...... 3 30
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 49
Bribery of officials to pass laws relating to .... 3 50
Taxation of personal property................................. 3 51
Appropriations tor private claims...................... 3 52
Witness not Incompetent on account of race or color 3 83
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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