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Sec. 15. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be it
enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, " and all laws
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 the title, and no law or section of law
shall be revived, amended or repealed by reference to its title
or section only; and it shall be the duty of the General As-
sembly 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 whenever the General Assem-
bly shall enact any Public General Law. not amendatory of
any section or article in the said Code it shall be the duty of
General Assembly to enact the same in articles and sections,
in the same manner as the said Code is arranged, and to pro-
vide for the publication of all additions and alterations which
may be made to the said Code.
Sec. 16. Any bill may originate in either House of the
General Assembly, and be altered, amended ar rejected by
the other; but no bill shall originate in either House during
the last three days of the session, or become a law, until it be
read on three different days of the session in each House, un-
less three-fourths of the members of the House, where such
bill is pending, shall so determine.
Sec. 17. No bill shall become a law, unless it be passed in
each House by a majority of the whole number of members
elected, and on its final passage, the ayes and noes be re-
corded.
Sec. 18. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of
the State, except in accordance with an appropriation made
by law, and every such law shall distinctly specify the sum
appropriated, and the object to which it shall be applied, pro-
vided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the Gener-
al Assembly from placing a contingent fund at the disposal
of the Executive, who shall report to the General Assembly
at each session, the amount expended and the purposes to
which it was applied; an accurate statement of the receipts
and expenditures of the public money shall be attached to,
and published with the laws, after each regular session of the
General Assembly.
Sec. 19. No divorce shall be granted by the General As-
sembly.
Sec. 20. No debt shall hereafter be contracted by the Gen-
eral Assembly unless such debt shall be authorised by a law
providing for the collection of an annual tax or taxes sufficient
to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to
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