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,
in any Department, or office of the Government, and the du-
ties imposed upon them thereby.

SEC. 57. The Legal Rate of Interest shall be Six per cent
per annum, unless otherwise provided by the General As-
sembly.

SEC. 58. The Legislature at its first session after the
ratification of this Constitution, shall provide by Law for
State and municipal taxation upon the revenues accruing
from business done in the State by all foreign corporations.

SEC. 59. The office of "State Pension Commissioner" is
hereby abolished; and the Legislature shall pass no law
creating such office, or establishing any general pension
system within this State.

*SEC. 60. The General Assembly of Maryland shall have
the power to provide by suitable general enactment (a) for
the suspension of sentence by the Court in criminal cases;
(b) for any form of the indeterminate sentence in criminal
cases, and (c) for the release upon parole in whatever man-
ner the General Assembly may prescribe, of convicts im-
prisoned under sentence for crimes.

*Added by Chapter 453, Acts of 1914. ratified November 2, 1915.