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Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal that Geo. W.
Covington, of Worcester county, is detained from his seat by
indisposition;
Which was adopted.
Mr. Carter submitted the following order:
Ordered, That the hour of meeting of the Contention on.
and after Friday 28th inst, shall be 9-30. A. M., which,
On motion of Mr. Merryman ;
Was laid on the table.
Mr. Maulsby, Chairman Committee respecting future
amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following:
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE RESPECTING
FUTURE AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION. .
ARTICLE.—AMENDMENTS.
Section 1. Any specific amendment or amendments to this
Constitution may be proposed by the General Assembly, pro-
vided, the same, shall be by Bill proposing a seperate amend-
ment which shall embody the entire article or section as the
same will stand when amended, and that said Bill shall have
passed by a vote of three-fifths of all the members elected to
each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall,
with the yeas and nays thereon, be entered on the Journal
of each House. The Bill or Bills, proposing amendment or
amendments, shall be published, by order of the Governor, in
at least two newspapers in each county where so many may
be published, and where not more than one may be published,
then in that newspaper, and in three newspapers published in
the city of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the German
language, for at least three months proceeding the next ensu-
ing general election, at which the said proposed amendment
or amendments shall be submitted, in a form to be prescribed
by the General Assembly, to the qualified voters of the State
for confirmation or rejection. The votes cast for and against
said proposed amendment or amendments severally shall be
returned to the Governor, in the manner prescribed in other
cases, and if it shall appear to the Governor that a majority
of the votes cast at said election on said amendment or amend-
ments severally, were cast in favor of the confirmation there-
of, the Governor shall, by his Proclamation, declare the said
amendment or amendments, having received said majority of
votes to have been adopted by the people of Maryland as part
of the Constitution thereof, and thenceforth said amendment
or amendments shall be part of the Constitution and Form of
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