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ranged and to provide for the publication of all additions
and alterations which may be made to the said Code.
Sec. 26, Every bill when passed by the General Assembly
and sealed with the Great Seal, shall be, presented to the
Governor, who shall sign the same in the presence of the
presiding officers and chief clerks of the Senate and House
of Delegates; every law shall be recorded in the office of the
Court of Appeals, and in due time be printed, published and
certified under the Great Seal, to the several Courts, in the
same manner as has been heretofore usual ia this State.
Sec. 27. 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; and in case any public law is made to take
effect before, the said first day of June, the General Assem-
bly shall provide for the immediate publication of the same,
if general, throughout the State, if local, in the counties to
which they apply.
Sec, 28, No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of
the State, by any order or resolution, nor except in accord-
ance 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 session, the amount
expended and the purposes to which it was applied; an ac-
curate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the pub-
lic money shall be attached to, and published with the laws
after each regular session of the General Assembly.
Sec. 29. The General Assembly shall not pass local or
special laws, in any of the following enumerated cases, viz.:
for extending 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, administra-
tes, guardians, or trustees; giving effect to informal or in-
valid deeds or wills, refunding money paid into the State
Treasury, or releasing persons from their debts or obliga-
tions to the State, unless recommended by the Governor or
officers of the Treasury Department; and the General As-
sembly shall pass no special law for any case for which pro-
Tision has been made by an existing general law; the Gen-
eral 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 adequate-
ly provided for, and for all other cases where a general law
can be made applicable.
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