SEC. 40. The General Assembly shall enact no law author-
izing private property to be taken for public use, without
just compensation as agreed upon between the parties, or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation.

SEC. 40A. The General Assembly shall enact no law au-
thorizing private property to be taken for public use without
just compensation, to be agreed upon between the parties or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation, but where such property is
situated in Baltimore city and is desired by this State or by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the General As-
sembly may provide for the appointment of appraisers by a
Court of Record to value such property, and that, upon pay-
ment of the amount of such valuation to the party entitled
to compensation, or into Court and securing the payment of
any further sum that may be awarded by a jury, such prop-
erty may be taken.*

SEC. 40B. The General Assembly shall enact no law author-
izing private property to be taken for public use without
just compensation, to be agreed upon between the parties
or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation, except that where such prop-
erty in the judgment of the State Roads Commission is needed
by the State for highway purposes, the General Assembly may
provide that such property may be taken immediately upon
payment therefor to the owner or owners thereof by said State
Roads Commission or into Court, such amount as said State
Roads Commission shall estimate to be of the fair value of said
property, provided such legislation also requires the payment
of any further sum that may subsequently be awarded by a
jury. (++)

SEC. 41. Any citizen of this State who shall, after the
adoption of this Constitution, either in or out of this State,
fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or accept a chal-
lenge so to do, or who shall act as a second, or knowingly aid
or assist in any manner those offending, shall ever thereafter
be incapable of holding any office of profit or trust under this
State, unless relieved from the disability by an Act of the
Legislature.

SEC. 42. The General Assembly shall pass laws necessary
for the preservation of the purity of elections.

SEC. 43. The property of the wife shall be protected from
the debts of her husband.

* Thus added by Chapter 402, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people November 4, 1913.

++ Thus added by Chapter 607, of the Acts of 1941 and radified by the people at the Novem-
ber election, 1942.