1462 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
amendments to the said Constitution, or, on the application of
the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call
a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case,
shall be valid to all intents and purpose!3 as part of said Con-
stitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of
the several States, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof,
as the one or other mode of ratification may be proposed by
the Congress; and,

Whereas, By the Sixty-first Congress of the United States of
America, at the first session thereof, begun and held at the
City of Washington on Monday, the fifteenth day of March, in
the year one thousand nine hundred and nine, it was resolved
by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of each
house concurring therein, that the following Article be pro-
posed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States, which when
ratified by three-fourths of the said Legislatures shall be valid
to all intents and purposes, as part of said Constitution,
namely:

ARTICLE 16. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes from whatever source derived, without appor-
tionment among the several States, and without regard to any
census or enumeration.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the aforesaid amendment be and the same is hereby ratified
and confirmed.

Approved April 8, 1910.