MARYLAND MANUAL 413
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 36
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 25
Impeachments ...................................................... 3 28
.Either House may originate bills................................... 3 27
Passage of bills .................................. 3 28
Style of laws and mode of enactment.......................... 3 28
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............. 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 (he 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 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 58
Bate 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 I
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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