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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 re-
jection. 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
amendments, severally, were cast in favor of the confir-
mation thereof, the Governor shall by his proclamation
declare the said amendment or amendments having re-
ceived 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 government of this
State. When two or more amendments shall be sub-
mitted, 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 the sense of the people of
this State, whether they desire or not that there shall be
a Convention to revise, alter, or amend the constitution,
at the general election to be held in or next after the year
1887, and every twenty years thereafter; and if a major-
ity 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 election of delegates to the
same, who shall be equal to the number of members of
both houses of the General Assembly, and for the as-
sembling of such Convention. But any Constitution, or
change or amendment of the existing Constitution, which
may be adopted by such Convention shall be submitted
to the voters of this State at a general election, and shall
have no effect unless the same shall have been adopted
by a majority of the voters voting thereon.
The unfinished business, being the report of the com-
mittee on the legislative department, was taken up, sec-
tion thirty being under consideration, and the question
being on the amendment of Mr. Jones to authorize the
Legislature to pledge the faith of the State for not more
than $300, 000 in aid of the Eastern Shore Railroad.
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