104 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

Generally.

The portion of this section providing that corporations shall not be created by
special act, etc., does not apply to a corporation formed by special act, when the
general law limited the duration of corporations to forty years, and when such special
act authorized it to perpetuate its existence. Singer v. Wyman Memorial Assn.,
138 Md. 406.

This section does not prohibit the legislature from imposing reasonable restric-
tions upon the qualified voters of the municipality. This section referred to in con-
struing art. 1, sec. 1—see notes thereto. Hanna v. Young, 84 Md. 182.

This section referred to in upholding the title of the act of 1900, ch. 75, providing
for the establishment of an electric light plant in Hagerstown—see notes' to sec. 29.
Mealey v. Hagerstown, 92 Md. 745.

This section referred to in deciding that the act of 1868, ch. 471, was a substitute
for all existing general (corporation) laws on the same subject. Montel v. Consoli-
dation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.

This section referred to in construing art. 15 of the Declaration of Rights—see
notes thereto. State v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 48 Md. 87 (dissenting opinion).

Cited but not construed in Baltimore County Water Co. v. Baltimore County,
105 Md. 155.

See note to art. 3, sec. 33, Md. Constitution, and see art. 23, An. Code.

Sec. 49. The General Assembly shall have 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.

This section does not require that election laws shall be uniform throughout the
state; they must be free and equal to all persons entitled to vote—see notes to sec. 33.
Lankford v. Somerset County, 73 Md. 117.

This section referred to in construing art. 4, sec. 11, and art. 5, sec. 2—see notes
thereto. Groome v. Gwinn, 43 Md. 631 (concurring opinion).

Sec. 50. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly at its first session,
held after the adoption of this Constitution, to provide by La,w for the
punishment, by fine, or imprisonment in the Penitentiary or both, in the
discretion of the Court, of any person who 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 Maryland, 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, by fine, or
imprisonment in the Penitentiary, or both, in the discretion of the Court
of any of said officers, or members, who shall demand or receive any bribe,
fee, reward or testimonial 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 offences; provided, that
any person so compelled to testify shall be exempted from trial and punish-
ment for the offence of which he may have been guilty; and any person
convicted of such offense shall, as part of the punishment thereof, be forever
disfranchised and disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit in
this State.

See art. 27, sec. 31, et seq., of the An. Code, and art. 1, sec. 3, Md. Constitution.

Sec. 51. The personal property of residents of this State shall be subject
to taxation in the county or city where the resident bona fide resides for the