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Sec. 29.

Act 1924, ch. 495, giving certain riparian owners in Dorchester County cer-
tain fishing rights upheld; reference in title to article and section sufficient.
Dean v. Slocum, 149 Md. 580.

Title act 1927, ch. 359, providing for construction of roadways, sewers, etc.,
in Chestertown, defective in failure to refer to creation of special commission;
act void. Culp v. Commrs. of Chestertown, 154 Md. 622.

Title of ordinance submitting Baltimore Airport Loan to voters, held suffi-
cient. See notes to art. 11, sec. 7, of Constitution. Douty v. Baltimore, 155 Md.
137.

Ordinance of Baltimore regulating slaughter houses, etc., sufficiently de-
scribed in title. Baltimore v. Bloecher, 149 Md. 659.

Title act 1924, ch, 529 (creating Metropolitan District of Baltimore County)
held sufficient. Dinneen v. Rider, 152 Md. 357.

Art. 56, sec. 229, sufficiently described in title—see notes thereto. Adding
Machine Co. v. State, 146 Md. 196.

Title act 1927, ch. 691, prohibiting sale of liquor or giving liquor to minors
in Howard County, sufficient. Redmond v. State, 155 Md. 16.

Title act 1920, ch. 350, regulating sale of liquor in Baltimore County, insuffi-
cient; act void. Shea v. State, 148 Md. 257.

This section referred to in construing Workmen's Compensation Act—see
notes to Code, art. 101, sec. 14.

Cited but not construed in Havre de Grace v. Bridge Co., 145 Md. 493.

Sec. 31.

See notes to art. 16, sec. 1, of Constitution.

Sec. 32.

See notes to Code, art. 56, sec. 253.

Sec. 33.

Act 1924, ch. 48, exempting certain municipalities from securing approval of
commission for erection of electric light plant and Issuance of bonds, held in-
valid under portion of this section prohibiting special laws where provision
made by general law. Classification of cities for legislation. See notes to art.
23, sec. 347, of Code. Littleton v. Hagerstown. 150 Md. 170 (cf. dissenting opin-
ion). And see P. S. C. v. Byron, 153 Md. 484.

Though art. 56, sec. 183, only applies in Baltimore, it is not a special law.
Distinction between general and local law. See notes to art. 56, sec. 183, of
Code. Grossfield v. Baughman, 148 Md. 333.

See notes to Code, art. 56, sec. 253.

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 object until the said debt and inter-
est thereon shall be fully discharged. The credit of the State shall not in
any manner be given, or loaned to, or in aid of any individual association
or corporation; nor shall the General Assembly have the power in any
mode to involve the State in the construction of works of internal improve-
ment, nor in granting any aid thereto which shall involve the faith or credit
of the State; nor make any appropriation therefor, except in aid of the Con-
struction of works of internal improvement in the counties of St. Mary's,
Charles and Calvert, which have had no direct advantage from such works