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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 ( ommission needed for
water supply, sewerage and drainage systems to be ex
tended or constructed by the said Commission, the Gen
eral Assembly may provide that such property, except an\
building or buildings may be taken immediately upon
payment therefor by the condemning 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 estimate 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 )urv, and provided such
legislauon 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 construcuon
project
SEC. 40D.73 Vacant
SEC. 41.^Vacant
SEC. 42.75 Vacant
SEC. 43. The property of the wife shall be protected
from the debts of her husband
SEC. 44. Laws shall be passed by the General
Assembly, to protect from execution a reasonable amount
of the property of the debtor
SEC. 45.77 The Genera] Assembly shall provide a
simple and uniform system of charges in the offices of
Clerks of Courts and Registers of W ills, in the Counties
of this State and the City of Baltimore, and for the
collection thereof, provided, the amount of compensation
to any of the said officers in the various Counties and in
the City of Baltimore shall be such as may be prescribed
by law
SEC. 46. the General Assembly shall have power to
receive from the United States, any grant, or donation of
land, money, or securities for any purpose designated by
the United States, and shall administer, or distribute the
same according to the conditions of the said grant
SEC. 47.78 Vacant
SEC. 48. Corporations may be formed under gen
eral laws, but shall not be created by Special Act, except
tor municipal purposes and except in cases where no
general laws exist, providing tor the creation of corpora
tions of the same general character, as the corporation
proposed to be created, and any act of incorporation
passed in violation of this section shall be void All charters
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granted, or adopted in pursuance of this section, and all
charters heretofore granted and created, subject to repeal
or modification, may be altered, from time lu lime:, 01 be
repealed. Provided, nothing herein contained shall be
construed to extend to Banks, or the incorporation
thereof The General Assemble shall not alter oi amend
the charter, of any corporation existing at the time of the
adoption of this Article, or pass any other general or special
law for the benefit of such corporation, except upon the
condition that such corporation shall surrender all claim
to exemption from taxation or from the repeal or modifi
cation of its charter, and that such corporation shall there
after hold its charter subject to the provisions of this
Constitution, and any corporation chartered b\ this State
which shall accept, use, en)0), or in am wise i^ail itself of
any rights, privileges, or advantages that ma\ hereafter be
granted or conferred bv any general or special Act, shall
be conclusively presumed to hai e thereby sui rendered any
exemption from taxation to which it ma\ be entitled under
its charter, and shall be thereafter sub)ect to taxation as if
no such exemption has been granted b\ its charter
SEC. 49. The General Assemble shall hive power to
regulate by Law, not inconsistent with this Constitution,
all matters which relate to the Judges of election, time,
place and manner of holding elections in this State, and of
making returns thereof
SEC. 50. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly,
at its first session, held after the adoption of this Consti
tuuon, to provide by Law for the punishment, bv fine, or
imprisonment in the Penitentiary, or both, in the discre
tion of the Court, of an) person, \\ho shall bribe, or
attempt to bribe, any Executive, or Judicial officer of the
State of Maryland, or any member, or officer, of the
General Assembly of the State of Man land, or of any
Municipal corporation in the State of Maryland, or any
Executive officer of such corporation, in order to influence
him in the performance of any of his official duties, and,
also, to provide by Law for the punishment, b\ tine, or
imprisonment in the Penitentiary, or both, in the discre
tion of the Court, of any of said officers, or members, who
shall demand, or receive any bribe, fee, reward, or testi
momal, for the performance of his official duties, or for
neglecting, or failing to perform the same and, also, to
provide by Law for compelling any person, so bribing, or
attempting to bribe, or so demanding, or receiving a bribe,
fee, reward, or testimonial, to testify against any person,
or persons, who may have committed any of said otfenses,
provided, that any person, so compelled to testih, shall be
exempted from trial and punishment for the offense, of
which he may have been guiln, and an\ person, convicted
of such offence, shall, as part of the punishment thereof,
be forever disfranchised and disqualified from holding any
office of trust, or profit, in this State
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SEC. 51. The personal property of residents of this
State, shall be subject to taxation in the ( ount\ or City
where the resident bonafide resides for the greater part of
the year for which the tax ma) or shall be lc\icd, and not
elsev, here, except goods and chattels permantnth located,
which shall be taxed in the C it} or County where the\ are
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