176 INDEX TO CONSTITUTION OF MABYLAND.

Legislature.

Art.

Sec.

qualification of members ............................................

3

9

persons ineligible to..................................................

3

10, 11, 12

vacancies, how to be filled ...........................................

3

13

time of meeting.....................................................

3

14

time of adjournment.................................................

3

15

compensation of members of ........................................

3

15

what books not to be purchased by, for use of members................

3

16

disqualified to hold other offices......................................

. 3

17

freedom of debate ..................................................

3

18

powers of each house ................................................

3

19

quorum ............................................................

3

20

sessions to be open ..................................................

3

21

journals to be published...............................................

3

22

imprisonment of disorderly persons ..................................

3

23

powers of house, as grand inquest....................................

3

24

special adjournments .............................................

3

25

impeachments ............'..........................................

3

26

either house may originate bills .....................................

3

27

passage of bills......................................................

3

28

style of laws and mode of enactment.................................

3

29

mode of attesting laws...............................................

3

30

when laws to take effect.............................................

3

31

appropriations of money to be made by law ..........................

3

32

Legislature.

contingent fund of Governor ........................................

3

32

statement of use of public money to be published.....................

3

32

divorces not to be granted by .......................................

3

33

local and special laws, what not to be passed..........................

3

33

debts, what not to be contracted......................................

3

34

credit of the state not to be granted, when ..........................

3

34

proceeds of internal improvement companies and state tax, to be used

to pay public debt............................................

3

34

may borrow fifty thousand dollars without laying tax, when...........

3

34

may contract debts for defence of the state ..........................

3

34

no extra compensation to be allowed to .............................

3

35

no lottery grant to be authorized by..................................

3

36

payment of slaves prohibited ......................................

3

37

imprisonment for debt prohibited ...................................

3

38

restrictions upon power to grant bank charters.......................

3

39

no law to be passed for the taking of private property without com-

pensation ...................................................

3

40-40A

purity of elections .................................................

3

42

wife's property to be protected from husband's debts.................

3

43

exemption laws ...................................................

3

44

uniform system of charges by clerks and registers of wills..............

3

45

may receive land from United States.................................

3

46

contested elections, may provide for.................................

3

47

control over corporations............................................

3

48

regulation of elections by law.......................................

3

49

bribery of officials to pass laws relating to ...........................

3

50

Legislature, taxation of personal property .............................

3

51

appropriations for private claims ....................................

3

52

witnesses not incompetent on account of race or color................

3

53

habeas corpus not to be suspended by ...............................

3

55

to pass laws to execute vested powers................................

3

56

rate of interest may be fixed by .....................................

3

57

foreign corporations to be taxed ....................................

3

58

address of, to remove judges........................................

4

4

to provide compensation for court officers............................

4

9

may prescribe sessions of court of appeals............................

4

14

may provide another court in Baltimore .............................

4

39

to fix compensation of judges of orphans' courts.......................

4

40

coroners, elisors and notaries, appointment and duties may be regu-

lated by ....................................................

4

45

reports of comptroller and treasurer to ..............................

6

2-4

amendments to Constitution by, how made...........................

14

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