COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	1, 1956, for services rendered after that
	date, that the salary or compensation of
	any appointed public officer of the Mayor
	and City Council of Baltimore may be
	increased or diminished at any time during
	his term of office; except that as to officers
	in the Classified City Service, when the
	salary of any appointed public officer of
	the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
	shall be so increased or decreased, it shall
	not again be increased or decreased, as the
	case may be, during the term of such public
	officer.
	Sec. 35A. Nothing in this Constitution
	•shall exempt the salary or compensation
	of any judge or other public officer from
	the imposition by the General Assembly of
	a non-discriminatory tax upon income.
	Sec. 36. No Lottery grant shall ever	Section 6.17. Lottery.
	hereafter be authorized by the General	Neither the State nor any unit of local
	Assembly.	government shall operate or authorize a lot-
		tery for the purpose of financing any ex-
		penses of government.
	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 States, compensa-
	tion for such Slaves, and to receive, and
	distribute the same, equitably, to the per-
	sons entitled.
	Sec. 38. No person shall be imprisoned	Section 1. 12. Imprisonment for Debt.
	for debt, but a valid decree of a court	No person shall be imprisoned for debt,
	of competent jurisdiction or agreement ap-	but an obligation for the support of a de-
	proved by decree of said court for the	pendent, or for alimony, created by a valid
	support of a wife or dependent children,	decree of a court or created by an agreement
	or for the support of an illegitimate child	approved by decree of a court shall not con-
	or children, or for alimony, shall not con-	stitute a debt within the meaning of this sec-
	stitute a debt within the meaning of this	tion.
	section.
	Sec. 39. The Books, papers and accounts
	of all Banks shall be open to inspection
	under such regulations as may be prescribed
	by Law.
	Sec. 40. The General Assembly shall	Section 1.16. Eminent Domain.
	enact no Law authorizing private property	Private property shall not be taken or
	to be taken for public use, without just	.damaged for public use or purposes without
	compensation, as agreed upon between the	just compensation, except that the allowance
	parties, or awarded by a jury, being first	of compensation for property damaged but

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