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of impeachment in all cases, but a majority of all the mem-
bers elected must concur in an impeachment; all impeach-
ments shall be tried by the Senate, and when sitting for that
purpose, the Senators shall be on oath, or affirmation, to do
justice according to law and evidence, but no person shall be
convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the
Senators elected.

Sec. 26. Any bill may originate in either House of the
General Assembly, and be altered, amended, or rejected by
the other; but no bill shall originate in either House during
the last ten days of the session, nor 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. 27. 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. 28. 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 nor section of a law,
shall be revived or amended by reference to its title or section
only; 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 whenever the General Assembly
shall enact any Public General 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 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. 29. Every bill, when passed by the General Assembly
and sealed with the Great Seat, shall be presented to the Gover-
nor, who shall sign the same in the presence of the presiding
officers and Chief Clerks of the Senate and House of Delegates;
every law shall be 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 usual in this State.

Sec. 30. No law passed by the General Assembly shall
take effect until the first day of June next after the session at
which it may be passed, unless it be otherwise expressly