38 CONSTITUTION OF THE [ART. 3.

Assembly shall provide for the immediate publication of

the same.

Appropriations to
be made by law.

SEC 31. No money shall be drawn from the treasury of

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the State, except in accordance with an appropriation by

law, and every such law shall distinctly specify the sum

appropriated, and the object to which it shall be applied ;

Contingent Fond.

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.

Local and Special

SEC. 32. The General Assembly shall not pass local or

Laws not to be
passed

special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, viz :

For the assessment and collection of taxes for State or

county purposes, or extending the time for the collection of

taxes ;

Providing for the support of the public schools ;

The preservation of school funds ;

The location or the regulation of school houses ;

Granting divorces ;

Relating to fees or salaries ;

Relating to the interest on money ;

Providing for regulating the election or compensation of

State or county officers ;

Or designating the places of voting ;

Or the boundaries of election districts ;

Providing for the sale of real estate belonging to minors

or other persons laboring under legal disabilities, by execu-

tors, administrators, guardians or trustees ;

Giving effect to informal or invalid deeds or wills ;

Refunding money paid into the State treasury, or re-

leasing persons from their debts or obligations to the State,

unless recommended by the Governor or officers of the

treasury department;