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AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
SECTION 1. Either branch of the General Assembly may
propose amendments to this Constitution; and if the same
shall be agreed to by three-fifths of the members elected to
each house, such proposed amendments shall be entered on the
Journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and shall be
published in two newspapers in each county in the State where
two are published, and in three newspapers in the city of Bal-
timore, one of which shall be German, for three months pre-
ceding the next election for Senators and Representatives, at
which time the same shall be submitted to the electors for
their approval or rejection; and if a majority of the electors
voting at such election, shall adopt such amendments, the
same shall become a part of the Constitution.
When more than one amendment shall be submitted at the
same time, they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors
to vote on each amendment separately.
Sec. 2. Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each
branch of the General Assembly, shall think it necessary to
call a Convention to revise, amend or change this Constitu-
tion, they shall recommend to the electors to vote, at the next
election for members of the General Assembly, for or against
a Convention; and if a majority of all the electors voting at
said election, shall have voted for a Convention, the General
Assembly shall, at their next session, provide by law for call-
ing the same.
The Convention shall consist of as many members as both
houses of the General Assembly, who shall be chosen in the
same manner, and shall meet within three months after their
election, for the purpose aforesaid.
Sec. 3. At the general election to be held in the year one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and in each twentieth
year thereafter, the question "shall there be a Convention to
revise, alter or amend the Constitution ?" shall be submitted
to the electors of the State; and in case a majority of all the
electors voting at such election, shall decide in favor of a Con-
vention, the General Assembly, at its next session, shall pro-
vide by law, for the election of delegates, and the Assem-
bling of such Convention, as is provided in the preceding sec-
tion; but no amendment of this Constitution, agreed upon by
any Convention, assembled in pursuance of this Article, shall
take effect, until the same shall have been submitted to the
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