CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		provisions of this Constitution; subject,
		nevertheless, to the revision of, and amend-
		ment or repeal by, the Legislature of this
		State. And the Inhabitants of Maryland
		are also entitled to all property derived to
		them from, or under the Charter granted
		by His Majesty Charles the First to Caecilius
		Calvert, Baron of Baltimore.
		Art. 23. That no man ought to be taken
		or imprisoned or disseized of his freehold,
		liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or
		exiled, or, in any manner, destroyed, or
		deprived of his life, liberty or property,
		but by the judgment of his peers, or by the
		Law of the Land.
		Art. XV, sec. 6. The right of trial by
		Jury of all issues of fact in civil proceed-
		ings in the several Courts of Law in this
		State, where the amount in controversy
		exceeds the sum of five dollars, shall be
		inviolably preserved.
	Section 1.14. Habeas Corpus. The right to the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.	Art. III, sec. 55. The General Assembly shall pass no Law suspending the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
	Section 1.15. Ex Post Facto Laws. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law,	Art. 17. That retrospective Laws, pun- ishing acts committed before the existence
	or law impairing the obligation of contracts	of such Laws, and by them only declared
	shall be enacted.	criminal, are oppressive, unjust and incom-
		patible with liberty: wherefore, no ex post
		facto Law ought to be made; nor any
		retrospective oath or restriction be imposed,
		or required.
		Art. 18. That no Law to attaint par-
		ticular persons of treason or felony, ought
		to be made in any case, or at any time,
		hereafter.
	Section 1.16. Eminent Domain. Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use or purposes without just compensation, except that the allowance of compensation for property damaged but not taken for public use or purposes shall be subject to any reasonable limitations and re- strictions that the General Assembly may	Art. III, sec. 40. The General Assembly shall enact no Law authorizing private property to be taken for public use, without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid, or tendered, to the party entitled to such compensation.
	prescribe by law.	Sec. 40A. The General Assembly shall
		enact no law authorizing private property
		to be taken for public use without just
		compensation, to be agreed upon between
		the parties, or awarded by a jury, being
		first paid or tendered to the party entitled
		to such compensation, but where such prop-
		erty is situated in Baltimore City and is
		desired by this State or by the Mayor and
		City Council of Baltimore, the General

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