64 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. III

it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact the same, in.
articles and sections, in the same manner as the Code is arranged, and.
to provide for the publication of all additions and alterations which
may be made to the said Code.

Sec. 30. Every bill, when passed by the General Assembly, and
sealed with the Great Seal, shall be presented to the Governor, who, if
he approves it, shall sign the same in the presence of the presiding
officers and chief clerks of the Senate and House of Delegates. Every
law shall be recorded 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 heretofore 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 accordance with an appro-
priation 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 accurate 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, adminis-
trators, guardians or trustees, giving effect to informal or invalid
deeds or wills, refunding money paid into the State Treasury, or releas-
ing persons from their debts or obligations to the State, unless recom-
mended by the Governor or officers of the Treasury Department. And
the General Assembly 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.

Sec. 34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the General
Assembly unless such debt shall be authorized by a law providing for-
the collection of an annual tax or taxes sufficient to pay the interest on
such debt as it falls due, and also to discharge the principal thereof"
within fifteen years from the time of contracting the same; and the
taxes laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or applied to any other-