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the other; but no bill shall originate in either House dur-
ing the last ten days of the session, unless two-thirds or
the members elected thereto shall so determine by yeas
and nays; nor shall any bill become a law, until it be read
on three different days of the session in each House, un-
less two-thirds of the members elected to the House,
where such bill is pending, shall so determine by yeas and
nays; and no bill shall be read a third time until it shall
have been actually engrossed for a third reading.
SEC. 28. No bill shall become a law unless it be passed
in each House by a majority of the whole number of mem-
bers elected, and on its final passage the yeas and nays be
recorded; nor shall any resolution, requiring the action of
both Houses, be passed except in the same manner.
SEC. 29. The style of all laws of this State shall be,
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,"
and all tews shall be passed by original bill; and every
law enacted by the General Assembly, shall embrace but
one subject, and that shall be described in its title; and
no law, nor section of a law, shall be revived, or amended
by reference to its tile, or section only; nor shall any law
be construed, by reason of its title, to grant powers, or
confer rights which are not expressly contained in the
body of the Act; and it shall be the duty of the General
Assembly, in amending any article or section of the Code
of Laws of this State, to enact the same, as the said
article or section would read when amended. And when-
ever the General Assembly shall enact any Public Gen-
eral Law, not amendatory of any section or article in the
said Code, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
enact the same, in articles and sections, in the same man-
ner as the Code is arranged, and to provide for the pub-
lication of all additions and alterations which may be
made to the said Code.
SEC. 30. Every bill, when passed by the General As-
sembly, and sealed with the Great Seal, shall be presented
to the Governor, 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 foe 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 used in this State.
SEC. 81. No law passed by the General Assembly shall
take effect until the first day of June, next after the ses-
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