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ARTICLE XXVI.

Prohibition of the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. The manufacture of intoxicating liquors, not including cider, and the sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors, are and shall be forever prohibited.

Except, however, that the sale and keeping for sale of such liquors for medicinal and mechanical purposes and the arts, and the sale and keeping for sale of cider, may be permitted under such regulations as the Legislature may provide.

The Legislature shall enact laws with suitable penalties for the suppression of the manufacture, sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors, with the exceptions herein specified.

AMENDMENT XXVII.

Eligibility of the Treasurer of the State.

The Treasurer shall be chosen biennially, at the first session of the Legislature, by joint ballot of the Senators and Representa tives in convention, but shall not be eligible more than six years successively.

AMENDMENT XXVIII.

Appointment of Adjutant-General.

The major-generals shall be elected by the Senate and House of Representatives, each having a negative on the other. The adjutant-general and quartermaster-general shall be appointed by the Governor. But the adjutant-general shall perform the duties of quartermaster-general until otherwise directed by law. The major-generals and brigadier-generals and the commanding officers of regiments and battalions, shall appoint their respective staff officers; and all military officers shall be commissioned by the Governor.

AMENDMENT XXIX.

Educational Qualifications of Voters.

No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this State, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name: Provided, however, That the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical dis ability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect.

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

STATE OF MARYLAND.

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND,

Article

1. Elective franchise.

2. Executive department.

3. Legislative department. 4. Judiciary department. 5. Attorney-General

attorney.

and State's

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ought to be separate and distir.ct.

9. Power of suspending laws derived from the Legislature. 10. Freedom of speech and debate. 11. The seat of government,

Annapolis.

12. The Legislature ought to be frequently convened.

13. Every man has a right to petition the same for redress of grievances.

14. Taxes, etc., not to be levied without the consent of the Legislature.

15. Taxes may be imposed for the benefit of the community. 16. No law to inflict cruel punishment.

17. No ex post facto law ought to be made.

18. No law to attaint particular persons of treason, or felony, ought to be made.

19. Justice and right to be free and speedy.

20. The trial of facts, one of the greatest securities of the people.

21. In all criminal prosecutions every man has a right to be informed of the accusation against him; to a speedy trial by an impartial jury. 22. No man need give evidence against himself.

23. Imprisonment of freemen. 24. Slavery shall not be re-estab

lished.

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32. Who to be punished by martial law.

33. Judges not to receive fees.

34. Change of departments advisable.

35. No person to hold more than one office of profit.

36. Freedom of religious thought and worship.

37. No religious test to be required for qualification for office.

38. In regard to gifts to religious sects, creeds, etc.

39. In regard to administering an oath.

40. Liberty of the press.

41. No monopolies.

42. No title of nobility, etc, to be granted in this State.

43. General education to be promoted.

44. The provisions of this Constitution and of the United States apply as well in time of peace

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16. Governor may convene the Legislature.

17. All bills before becoming a law to be sent to the Governor to be signed or rejected.

18. He shall examine the accounts of the Treasurer and Comptroller twice a year.

19.

His message to the Legislature. 20. He has power to grant reprieves and pardons.

21. He shall reside at the seat of government.- His salary. 22. Secretary of State, term and salary.

23. His duties.

ARTICLE III.

Legislative Department.

1. The Senate and House of Delegates.

2. Senators, election and term.

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