SEC. 39.⁶⁷ The boob, papers and accounts of all
banks shall be open to inspection under such regulations as
may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 40. The General Assembly shall enact no Law
authorizing private property to be taken for public use
without just compensation, as agreed upon between the
parties, or awarded by a jury being first paid or tendered
to the party entitled to such compensation.

SEC. 40A.⁶⁸ The General Assembly shall enact no law
authorizing private property to be taken for public use
without just compensation, to be agreed upon between the
parties, or awarded by a jury being first paid or tendered to
the party entitled to such compensation, but where such
property is situated in Baltimore City and is desired by this
State or by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the
General Assembly may provide that such property may be
taken immediately upon payment therefor to the owner or
owners thereof by the State or by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, or into court, such amount as the State
or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case may
be, shall estimate to be the fair value of said property
provided such legislation also requires the payment of any
further sum that may subsequently be added by a jury; and
further provided that the authority and procedure for the
immediate taking of property as it applies to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore on June 1,1961, shall remain in
force and effect to and including June 1,1963, and where
such property is situated in Baltimore County and is desired
by Baltimore County Maryland, the County Council of
Baltimore County Maryland, may provide for the appoint-
ment of an appraiser or appraisers by a Court of Record to
value such property and that upon payment of the amount
of such evaluation, to the pity entitled to compensation, or
into Court, and securing the payment of any further sum
that may be awarded by a jury such property may be taken;
and where such property is situated in Montgomery County
and in the judgment of and upon a finding by the County
Council of said County that there is immediate need therefor
for right of way for County roads or streets, the County
Council may provide that such property may be taken
immediately upon payment therefor to the owner or owners
thereof, or into court, such amount as a licensed real estate
broker appointed by the County Council shall estimate to
be the fair market value of such property provided that the
Council shall secure the payment of any further sum that
may subsequently be awarded by a jury In the various
municipal corporations within Cecil County where in the
judgment of and upon a finding by the governing body of
said municipal corporation that there is immediate need
therefor for right of way for municipal roads, streets and
extension of municipal water and sewage facilities, the
governing body may provide that such property may be
taken immediately upon payment therefor to the owner or
owners thereof, or into court, such amount as a licensed real
estate broker appointed by the particular governing body
shall estimate to be a fair market value oT such properly
provided that the municipal corporation shall secure the
payment of any further sum that subsequently may be

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awarded by a jury This Section 40A shall not apply in
Montgomery County or any of the various municipal
corporations within Cecil County if the property actually
to be taken includes a building or buildings.

SEC. 40B.⁶⁹ The General Assembly shall enact no law
authorizing private property to be taken for public use
without just compensation, to be agreed upon between the
parties or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to
the party entitled to such compensation, except that where
such property in the judgment of the State Roads Commis-
sion is needed by the State for highway purposes, the
General Assembly may provide that such property may be
taken immediately upon payment therefor to the owner or
owners thereof by said State Roads Commission, or into
Court, such amount as said State Roads Commission shall
estimate to be of the fair value of said property provided
such legislation also requires the payment of any further
sum that may subsequently be awarded by a jury.

SEC. 40C.⁷⁰The General Assembly shall enact no law
authorizing private property to be taken for public use
without just compensation, to be agreed upon between the
parties or awarded by a jury being first paid or tendered to
the party entitled to such compensation, except that where
such property located in Prince George's County in this
State, is in the judgment of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission needed for water supply sewerage
and drainage systems to be extended or constructed by the
said Commission, the General Assembly may provide that
such propcrttt except any building or buildings may be
taken immediately upon payment therefor by the con-
demning authority to the owner or owners thereof or into
the Court to the use of the person or persons entitled
thereto, such amount as the condemning authority shall
estimate to be the fair value of said property provided such
legislation requires that the condemning authority's es-
timate be not less than the appraised value of the property
being taken as evaluated by at least one qualified appraiser,
whose qualifications have been accepted by a Court of
Record of this State, and also requires the payment of any
further sum that may subsequently be awarded by a jury
and provided such legislation limits the condemning
authority's utilization of the acquisition procedures
specified in this section to occasions where it has acquired
or is acquiring by purchase or other procedures one-half or
more of the several takings of land or interests in land
necessary for any given water supply sewerage or drainage
extension or construction project.

SEC. 40D.⁷¹ Vacant.
SEC. 41.⁷² Vacant.
SEC. 42.⁷³ Vacant.

SEC. 43. The property of the wife shall be protected
from the debts of her husband.

SEC. 44.⁷⁴ Laws shall be passed by the General
Assembly to protect from execution a reasonable amount
of the property of the debtor.