40 CONSTITUTION OF THE [ART. 3.

Lotteries pro-
hibited

SEC. 35. No Lottery grant shall ever hereafter be author-

ized by the General Assembly.

Compensation for

SEC 36. The General Assembly shall pass no law, nor

Slates not to be
allowed

make any appropriation to compensate the masters or

claimants of slaves emancipated from servitude by the

adoption of this Constitution.

No imprisonment
for debt
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SEC. 37. No person shall be imprisoned for debt.

Banks not to be

SEC. 38. The General Assembly shall grant no charter

chartered
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for banking purposes, nor renew any banking corporation

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now in existence, cxcapt upon the condition that the stock-

holders shall be liable to the amount of their respective

share or shares of stock in such banking institution for all

its debts and liabilities upon note, bill or otherwise; and

upon the farther condition that no director or other officer

of said corporation shall borrow any money from said cor-

poration ; and if any director or other officer shall be con-

victed upon indictment of directly or indirectly violating

this section, he shall be punished by fine or imprisonment

Provisions rola-

at the discretion of the Court The books, papers, and

t.ng to Banks.

accounts of all banks shall be open to inspection, under

such regulations as may be prescribed by law.

Compensation for
property taken fur

SEC. 39 The General Assembly shall enact no law

Public use
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authorizing private property to be taken for public use

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without just compensation as agreed upon between the

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parties or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered

to the party entitled to such compensation.

Duellists ineligi-

SEC. 40. Any citizen of this State who shall, after the

ble to office

adoption of this Constitution, either in or ont of this State,

fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or except a chal-

lenge so to do, or who shall act as a second, or knowingly

aid or assist in any manner those thus offending, and any

citizen who has thus offended, or who has so aided or

assisted those thus offending, since the first Wednesday of

June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, shall ever thereafter

be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under

this State.

Registration of

SEC. 41. The General Assembly shall pass laws for the

voters.

preservation of the purity of elections by the registration of