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Art. 3] MARYLAND MANUAL 601
(14) In the event of any inconsistency between any of
the provisions of this Section and any of the other pro-
visions 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 extraordinary sessions from con-
sidering any emergency appropriation 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.
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.
1 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.
2 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.
3 SEC. 60. The General Assembly of Maryland shall have
the power to provide by suitable general enactment (a) for
1 Thus amended by Chapter 71, Acts of 1960. ratified November 8, 1060.
2 THUS amended by chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
3 add by Chapter 453, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2, 1915.

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