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and certified under the Great Seal, to the several Courts, in the
same manner as has been heretofore usual in this State.

Parkinson v. State, 14 Md 184. Berry 11 Balt. & Drum Point R. R. Co, 41
Md 446. Legg v. Mayor, &c., of Annapolis, 42 Md. 203 Hamilton v. State,
61 Md. 14.

SEC. 31. No Law passed by the General Assembly shall take
effect, until the first day of June, next after the Session, at which
it may be passed, unless it be otherwise expressly declared therein.

Parkinson ». State, 14 Aid. 184. Risewick v. Davis, 19 Md 96.

SEC. 32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the
State by any order or resolution, nor 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;
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 ses-
sion the amount expended and the purposes to which it was ap-
plied. 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.

Thomas v. Owens, 4 Md. 189. McPherson v. Leonard, 29 Md 377.

SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall not pass local or special
Laws in any of the following enumerated cases, viz: For extend-
ing 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 Gen-
eral Assembly shall pass no special Law for any case for which
provision has been made by an existing General Law. The
General Assembly, at its first session after the adoption of this

Constitution, shall pass General Laws providing for the cases
(enumerated in this section which are not already adequately pro-