560 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 8, Sec. 54]
^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.
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 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.
SEC. 61. (a) The General Assembly may authorize
and empower any county or any municipal corporation, by
public local law:
(1) To carry out urban renewal projects which shall be
limited to slum clearance in slum or blighted areas and
redevelopment or the rehabilitation of slum or blighted
areas, and to include the acquisition, within the boundary
lines of such county or municipal corporation, of land and
property of every kind and any rig-ht, interest, franchise,
easement or privilege therein, by purchase, lease, gift,
'Thug amended by Chapter 71, Acts of 1960, ratified November 8, 1960.
•Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956,
'Added by Chapter 453, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2, 1915.
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