CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	every Law enacted by the General Assembly	law except by bill. The subject of every law
	shall embrace but one subject, and that	shall be described in its title. Every law en-
	shall be described in its title; and no Law,	acted by the General Assembly, except the
	nor section of Law, shall be revived, or	budget law and supplementary appropriation
	amended by reference to its title, or section	laws, shall embrace only one subject. The
	only; nor shall any Law be construed by	budget law and all supplementary appropria-
	reason of its title, to grant powers, or	tion laws shall be limited to the subject of
	confer rights which are not expressly con-	budget, appropriations, their purpose or pur-
	tained in the body of the Act; and it shall	poses, and the requisite revenue. No law or
	be the duty of the General Assembly, in	section of a law shall be revived or amended
	amending any article, or section of the	by reference only to its title or section, nor
	Code of Laws of this State, to enact the	shall any law be construed by reason of its
	same, as the saiC Urticle, or section would	title to grant powers or confer rights which
	read when amended. And whenever the	are not expressly contained in the body of
	General Assembly shall enact any Public	the act. The General Assembly, in amending
	General Law, not amendatory of any section,	any article or section of the code of laws of
	or article in the said Code, it shall be the	this State, shall enact the article, section, or
	duty of the General Assembly to enact the	law as it would read when amended.
	same, in articles and sections, in the same
	manner, as the Code is arranged, and to
	provide for the publication of all additions
	and alterations, which may be made to the
	said Code.
	Sec. 30. Every bill, when passed by the	See Section 4.15, Action on Bills by the Gov-
	General Assembly, and sealed with the	ernor, p. 18.
	Great Seal, shall be presented to the Gover-
	nor, who, if he approves it, 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 in this State.
	Sec. 31. No Law passed by the General	Section 3.23. Effective Date of Laws.
	Assembly shall take effect, until the first	Each law passed by the General Assembly
	day of June, next after the Session, at	shall take effect on the first day of July after
	which it may be passed, unless it be other-	passage unless another date is prescribed in
	wise expressly declared therein.	the law.
	Sec. 32. No money shall be drawn from	Section 6.08. Appropriations.
	the Treasury of the State, by any order	The General Assembly shall not appropri-
	or resolution, nor except in accordance	ate any money from the treasury except by a
	with an appropriation by Law; and every	budget bill or a supplementary appropria-
	such Law shall distinctly specify the sum	tion bill.
	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 expendi-
	tures of the public money, shall be at-	i

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