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CONSTITUTION — ART. III.

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 state-
ment 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 As-
sembly

Local and spe-
cial laws not to
be passed
47 Md 1C, 47
Md 161, 30 lid
503, 21 Md 516,
1 H & J 2S6, 3
H &. J 2, 43, 302,
1 G & J 4CS, G
G & J 461, 7 G.
& J 7, 191, 8 G
& J 386, 9 G &
J 365, 11 G &. T
87, 12 G & J 257,
28G, 400, 2 Bl
209, 2 Md 429

SEC 83 The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of
the following enumerated cases, viz For extending the time for the collection
of taxes; granting divorces; changing the name of any person; providing
for the sale of real estate belonging to minors, or other persons laboring under
legal disabilities, by executors, administrators, guardians, or trustees; giving
effect to informal or invalid deeds or wills; refunding money paid into the
State treasury, or releasing persons from their debts or obligations to the State,
unless recommended by the governor, or officers of the treasury department
And the General Assembly shall pass no special law for any case for which pro-
vision has been mode by an existing general law The General Assembly, at
its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall pass general laws

General laws to
be provided

providing for the cases enumerated in this section which are not already ade-
quately provided for, and for all other cases where a general law can be made
applicable

Debts not to be
contracted.

SEC 84 No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the General Assembly un-
less 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 re-
pealed or applied to any other object, until the said debt, and interest thereon,

Credit of the
State not to be
given
15 Md 205.

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 improvement, 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 construction of works of internal
improvement in the counties of St Mary's, Charles, and Culvert, which have
had no direct advantage from such works as have been heretofore aided by the
State, and provided, that such aid, advances, or appropriations, shall not ex-
ceed in the aggregate the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. And they shall
not use or appropriate the proceeds of the internal improvement companies, or
of the State tax, now levied, or which may hereafter be levied, to pay off the

Public debt of
the State

public debt, to any other purpose, until the interest and debt are fully paid, or
the sinking fund shall be equal to the amount of the outstanding debt; but the
General Assembly may, without laying a tax, borrow an amount never to ex-

Temporary
deficiencies

ceed fifty thousand dollars, to meet temporary deficiencies in the treasury, and
may contract debts to any amount that may be necessary for the defence of the
state.

Extra compen-
sation not to be
allowed

SEC. 36 No extra compensation shall be granted or allowed by the General
Assembly, to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after the service
shall have been rendered, or the contract entered into, nor shall the salary or
compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term
of office

Lotteries pro-
hibited
12 G & J 1

SEC 36 No lottery grant shall ever hereafter be authorized by the General
Assembly.

Payment
for slaves
prohibited
23 Md 503

SEC 37 The General Assembly shall pass no law providing for payment, by
this State, for slaves emancipated from servitude in this State, but they shall
adopt such measures as they may deem expedient to obtain from the United

No imprison-
ment for debt,
o Md 337
6 Md 308

States compensation for such slaves, and to receive and distribute the same
equitably to the persons entitled
Sue 38 No person shall be imprisoned for debt.