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ters, assistants and office expenses shall always be paid out of the
fees, or receipts of the offices, respectively.
Banks v. State, 60 Md. 305.

SEC. 46. The General Assembly shall have power to receive
from the United States, any grant, or donation of land, money,
or securities for any purpose designated by the United States,
and shall administer, or distribute the same according to the

conditions of the said grant.

SEC. 47. The General Assembly shall make provisions for all

cases of contested elections of any of the officers, not herein
provided for.

State v. Jarrett & Harwood, 17 Md 309. Groome v. Gwinn, 43 Md. 572

SEC. 48. Corporations may be formed under general Laws;
"but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal
^purposes, and except in cases, where no general Laws exist,
providing for the creation of corporations of the same general
character, as the corporation proposed to be created; and any act

of incorporation, passed in violation of this section shall be void.
And as soon as practicable, after the adoption of this Constitution,
it shall be the duty of the Governor, to appoint three persons
learned in the Law, whose duty it shall be, to prepare drafts of
general Laws, providing for the creation of corporations, in such
cases as may be proper, and for all other cases, where a general
Law can be made; and for revising and amending, so far as may
be necessary, or expedient, the General Laws which may be in
existence on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty,
seven, providing for the creation of corporations, and for other

purposes; and such drafts of Laws shall by said commissioners,
i>e submitted to the General Assembly, at its first meeting, for its
action thereon; and each of said commissioners shall receive a

compensation of five hundred dollars for his services, as such
commissioner. 1

All Charters granted, or adopted, in pursuance of this section,
and all Charters heretofore granted and created, subject to repeal

or modification, may be altered, from time to time, or be re-

' See Act of 1868, ch 471.