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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, once a week, for at least
three months preceding the next ensuing general election, at
which the said proposed Amendment, or Amendments shall
be submitted, in a form to be prescribed by the General As-
sembly, to the qualified voters of the State for adoption or re-
jection. The votes cast for and against said proposed Amend-
ment, or Amendments, severally, shall be returned to the
Governor, in the manner prescribed in other cases; and if it
shall appear to the Govemor that a majority of the votes cast
at said election on said Amendment, or Amendments, sever-
ally, were cast in favor thereof, 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 said Constitution. When two or more Amend-
ments shall be submitted, in manner aforesaid, to the voters
of this State at the same election, they shall be so submitted as
that each Amendment shall be voted on separately.
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, and every
twenty years thereafter, the sense of the People in regard to
calling a Convention for altering this Constitution; and if a
majority of voters at such election or elections shall vote for
a Convention, 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 Delegates equal to its representa-
tion in both Houses at the time the Convention is called.
But any Constitution, or Change, or Amendment, of the ex-
isting Constitution, which may be adopted by such Conven-
tion, 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 XV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Section 1. Every person holding any office created by, or
existing under the Constitution, or Laws of the State, (ex-
cept Justices of the Peace, Constables, and Coroners,) or hold-
ing any appointment under any Court of this State, whose
pay, or compensation, is derived from fees, or moneys coming
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