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708 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 3 the Senate and House of Delegates. Every Law shall be re- corded in the office of the Court of Appeals, and in due time, be printed, published and certified under the Great Seal, to the several Courts, in the same manner as has been hereto- fore usual in this State. SEC. 31. No Law passed by the General Assembly shall take effect, until the first day of June, next after the Session, at which it may be passed, unless it be otherwise expressly declared therein. SEC. 32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the State, by any order or resolution, nor except in accord- ance with an appropriation by Law; and every such Law shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object, to which it shall be applied; provided, that nothing herein contained, shall prevent the General Assembly from placing a contingent fund at the disposal of the Executive, who shall report to the General Assembly, at each Session, the amount expended, and the purposes to which it was applied. An ac- curate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public money, shall be attached to, and published with the Laws, after each regular Session of the General Assembly. SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall not pass local, or special Laws, in any of the following enumerated cases, viz. : For extending the time for the collection of taxes; granting divorces; changing the name of any person; providing for the sale of real estate, belonging to minors, or other persons laboring under legal disabilities, by executors, administra- tors, guardians or trustees; giving effect to informal, or in- valid deeds or wills; refunding money paid into the State Treasury, or releasing persons from their debts, or obliga- tions to the State, unless recommended by the Governor, or officers of the Treasury Department. And the General As- sembly shall pass no special Law, for any case, for which provision has been made, by an existing General Law. The General Assembly, at its first Session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall pass General Laws, providing for the cases enumerated in this section, which are not already adequately provided for, and for all other cases, where a General Law can be made applicable. 1 SEC. 34. The annual tax or taxes required to be col- lected shall not be collected in the event that sufficient funds to pay the principal and interest on the debt are appro- priated for this purpose in the annual State budget. The 1 Thus amended by Chapter 372, Acts of 1972, ratified November 7, 1972. |
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