tions applying for State moneys. After such public hearings
he may, in his discretion, revise all estimates except those
for the legislative and judiciary departments, and for the
public schools, as provided by law..

(13) The General Assembly may, from time to time,
enact such laws not inconsistent with this section, as may
be necessary and proper to carry out its provisions..

(14) In the event of any inconsistency between any of
the provisions of this Section and any of the other
provisions of the Constitution, the provisions of this
Section shall prevail. But nothing herein shall in any
manner affect the provisions of Section 34 of Article 3 of
the Constitution or of any laws heretofore or hereafter
passed in pursuance thereof, or be construed as preventing
the Governor from calling extraordinary sessions of the
General Assembly, as provided by Section 16 of Article 2,
or as preventing the General Assembly at such extraordi-
nary sessions from considering any emergency appropria-
tion or appropriations..

(15) If any item of any appropriation bill passed under
the provisions of this Section shall be held invalid upon
any ground, such invalidity shall not affect the legality of
the bill or of any other item of such bill or bills.] 1.

SEC. 53. No person shall be incompetent, as a witness,
on account of race or color, unless hereafter so declared by
Act of the General Assembly..

SEC. 54. No county of this State shall contract any debt,
or obligation, in the construction of any railroad, canal, or
other work of internal improvement, nor give, or loan its
credit to or in aid of any association, or corporation, unless
authorized by an Act of the General Assembly, which shall
be published for two months before the next election for
members of the House of Delegates in the newspapers pub-
lished in such county, and shall also be approved by a ma-
jority of all the members elected to each House of the Gen-
eral Assembly, at its next session after said election..

SEC. 55. The General Assembly shall pass no law sus-
pending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus..

SEC. 56. The General Assembly shall have power to
pass all such laws as may be necessary and proper for car-
rying into execution the powers vested by this Constitution,.

1 This amendment was submitted by Act of 1947, Ch. 497, and will be voted
upon by the voters in November, 1948..