TITLE V.

Legislative Department

CONSTITUTION—ARTICLE III.

CONSTITUTION—ARTICLE XIV.

ARTICLE 7. PUBLIC PRINTER, OFFICER'S AND MILEAGE.

CONSTITUTION—ARTICLE III.

1 Two branches, style 2 Election of senators, term, four years 3. Representation in House of Delegates until next census 4 Basis of representation in House of Dele- gates, legislative districts in Baltimore city 5 Governor to arrange the representation in house, proclamation 6 Election of delegates, term, two years 7. Time of elections 8 Classification of senators. 9 Qualifications of senators and delegates 10. Persons ineligible 11. Persons ineligible 12 Defaulters ineligible, ld Vacancies in Senate or House 14 Meetings of legislature 15 Compensation of members, extra session 16 Books not to be purchased 17 Disqualifications to hold certain offices 18 Exemption for words spoken in debate 19 Powers of each house. 20 Quorum. 21 Session to be opened 22 Journals to be published, yeas and nays. 28 Imprisonment of disorderly persons. 24. Powers of the House of Delegates, grand inquest, power to send for persons and papers, contracts, abuse in expendi- tures 25 Special adjournments. 26 Impeachment. 27 Either house may originate bills 28 Passage of bills 29 Style of laws, mode of enactment. 30 Bills to be signed by governor and recorded in the Court of Appeals 31 When laws to take effect

32 Appropriations to be made by law, contin- gent fund 33. Local and special laws not to be passed, general laws to be provided 34 Debts not to be contracted, credit of the State not to be given, public debt of the State, temporary deficiencies 35 Extra compensation not to be allowed 36 Lotteries prohibited 37 Payment for slaves prohibited 38 No imprisonment for debt 39 Banks, books to be open 40 Compensation for property taken for public use. 41 Duellists ineligible 42 Purity of elections 43 Wife's property protected. 44 Exemption laws 46 Compensation to clerks and registers 46 Legislature may receive land from the United States. 47 Contested elections 43. Corporations to be formed under general laws, commissioners to revise laws, charters may be repealed. 49 Regulation of elections. 50 Bribery, punishment, evidence, disquali- fication 51 Taxation of personal property. 52 Appropriations for private claims 53 Witness, race or color 54 No county to contract debt unless author- ized 65 Habeas corpus 56 Laws to execute vested powers. 57 Bates of interest 58 Foreign corporations to be taxed 59 Pension system abolished

CONSTITUTION—ARTICLE III.

SECTION 1. The legislature shall consist of two distinct branches; a Senate TWO branches.
and a House of Delegates, and shall be styled the General Assembly of Mary- Style.
land.

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