40 Constitution of the [Art. 3.

Lotteries pro-
hibited.

Sec. 35. No Lottery grant shall ever hereafter be author-
ized by the General Assembly.

Compensation for
Slaves not to be
allowed.

Sec. 36. The General Assembly shall pass no law, nor
make any appropriation to compensate the masters or
claimants of slaves emancipated from servitude by the
adoption of this Constitution.

No imprisonment
for debt
5 Md. 337.

Sec. 37. No person shall be imprisoned for debt.

Banks not to be
chartered.

1853, ch. 441.
1854, ch. 152.

Sec. 38. The General Assembly shall grant no charter
for banking purposes, nor renew any banking corporation
now in existence, except upon the condition that the stock-
holders shall be liable to the amount of their respective
share or shares of stock in such banking institution for all
its debts and liabilities upon note, bill or otherwise; and
upon the further condition that no director or other officer
of said corporation shall borrow any money from said cor-
poration; and if any director or other officer shall be con-
victed upon indictment of directly or indirectly violating
this section, he shall be punished by fine or imprisonment

Provisions rela-
ting to Banks.

at the discretion of the Court. The books, papers, and
accounts of all banks shall be open to inspection, under
such regulations as may be prescribed by law.

Compensation for
property taken for
Public use.

7 Md. 500.
1853. ch. 179.
14 Md. 444.
15 Md. 240.

Sec. 39. 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.

Duellists ineligi-
ble to office.

Sec. 40. Any citizen of this State who shall, after the
adoption of this Constitution, either in or out of this State,
fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or except a chal-
lenge so to do, or who shall act as a second, or knowingly
aid or assist in any manner those thus offending, and any
citizen who has thus offended, or who has so aided or
assisted those thus offending, since the first Wednesday of
June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, shall ever thereafter
be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under
this State.

Registration of
voters.

Sec. 41. The General Assembly shall pass laws for the
preservation of the purity of elections by the registration of