Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                   269

Article 14, "Amendments to the Constitution"

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide
by Law for taking, at the general election to be held in the year
[eighteen hundred and eighty-seven] nineteen hundred and seventy,
and every twenty years thereafter, the sense of the People in regard
to calling a Convention for altering this Constitution; and if a ma-
jority of voters at such election or elections shall vote for a Con-
vention, the General Assembly, at its next session, shall provide by
Law for the assembling of such convention, and for the election of
Delegates thereto. Each County, and Legislative District of the
City of Baltimore, shall have in such Convention a number of Dele-
gates equal to its representation in both Houses at the time at which
the Convention is called. But any Constitution, or change, or amend-
ment of the existing Constitution, which may be adopted by such
Convention, shall be submitted to the voters of this State, and shall
have no effect unless the same shall have been adopted by a majority
of the voters voting thereon.

Article 15, "Miscellaneous"

Sec. 1. Every person holding any office created by, or existing
under the Constitution, or Laws of the State (except Justices of the
Peace, Constables and Coroners), or holding any appointment under
any Court of this State, whose pay, or compensation is derived from
fees, or moneys coming into his hands for the discharge of his
official duties, or, in any way, growing out of, or connected with his
office, shall keep a book in which shall be entered every sum, or
sums of money, received by him, or on his account, as a payment
or compensation for his performance of official duties, a copy of
which entries in said book, verified by the oath of the officer, by
whom it is directed to be kept, shall be returned yearly to the Comp-
troller of the State for his inspection, and that of the General Assem-
bly of the State, to which the Comptroller shall, at each regular
session thereof, make a report showing what officers have complied
with this section; and each of the said officers, when the amount
received by him for the year shall exceed the sum which he is by
Law entitled to retain, as his salary or compensation for the dis-
charge of his duties, and for the expenses of his office, shall yearly
pay over to the Treasurer of the State the amount of such excess,
subject to such disposition thereof as the General Assembly may
direct; if any of such officers shall fail to comply with the requi-
sitions of this section for the period of thirty days after the expira-
tion of each and every year of his office, such officer shall be deemed
to have vacated his office, and the Governor shall declare the same
vacant, and the vacancy therein shall be filled as in the case of
vacancy for any other cause, and such officer shall be subject to
suit by the State for the amount that ought to be paid into the
Treasury [; and no person holding any office created by, or existing
under this Constitution or Laws of the State, or holding any appoint-
ment, under any Court in this State, shall receive more than three
thousand dollars a year as a compensation for the discharge of his
official duties, except in cases specially provided in this Constitution],

SEC. 3. [The Governor, and all officers, civil and military, now
holding office under this State, whether by election or appointment,