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MARYLAND MANUAL 487
SEC. 32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of
the State by any order or resolution, nor except in accordance
with an appropration by law; and every such law shall dis-
tinctly specify the sum appropriation and object to which
it shall be applied; provided, that nothing herein contained
shall prevent the General Assembly from placing a contin-
gent fund at the disposal of the Executive, who shall report
to the General Assembly at each session the amount expended,
and the purposes to which it was applied. An accurate state-
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the public money shall
be attached to and published with the laws after each regular
session of the General Assembly.
SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall not pass local or
special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, viz.:
For extending the time for the collection of taxes, granting
divorces, changing the name of any person, providing for the
sale of real estate belonging to minors or other persons labor-
ing under legal disabilities, by executors, administrators,
guardians or trustees, giving effect to informal or invalid
deeds or wills, refunding money paid into the State Treasury,
or releasing persons from their debts or obligations to the State,
unless recommended by the Governor or officers of the Treas-
ury Department. And the General Assembly shall pass no
special law for any case for which provision has been made by
an existing general law. The General Assembly, at its first
session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall pass
general laws providing for the cases enumerated in this section
which are not already adequately provided for, and for all
other cases where a general law can be made applicable.
SEC. 34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the Gen-
eral Assembly unless such debt shall be authorized by the law
providing for the collection of an annual tax or taxes sufficient
to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to dis-
charge the principal thereof within fifteen years from the
time of contracting the same; and the taxes laid for this purpose
shall not be repealed or applied to any other object until the
said debt and interest thereon shall be fully discharged. The
credit of the State shall not in any manner be given, or loaned
to, or in aid of any individual association or corporation;
nor shall the General Assembly have the power in any mode
to involve the State in the construction of works of internal
improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto, which shall
involve the faith or credit of the State; nor make any appro-
priation therefor, except in aid of the construction of works of
internal improvement in the counties of St. Mary's, Charles
and Calvert, which have had no direct advantage from such
works as have been heretofore aided by the State; and provided
that such aid, advances or appropriations shall not exceed in
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