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First Judicial Circuit; and the times for holding the Courts
therein shall be fixed and determined by the General Assembly.

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall pass all such laws as
may be necessary more fully to carry into effect the provisions
of this Article.

ARTICLE XIV.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly may propose Amend-
ments to this Constitution; provided, that each Amend-
ment shall be embraced in a separate Bill, embodying the
Article or Section, as the sam'e will stand when amended
and passed by three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered on the
Journals with the proposed Amendment. The bill or Bills
proposing amendment or amendments shall be published, by
order of the Governor, in at least two newspapers in each
county, where so many may be published, and where not
more than one may be published, then in that newspaper, and
in three newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, one
of which shall be in the German language, once a week for at
least three months preceding the next ensuing general elec-
tion, at which the 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 adoption or
rejection. 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, sev-
erally, were cast in favor thereof, the Governor shall, by his
proclamation, declare the said amendment or amendments,
having received 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 said Constitution. When two or more amendments shall
be submitted, 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, at the general election to be held
in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and every
twenty years thereafter, the sense of the people in regard to
calling a convention for altering this Constitution; and if a
majority of voters at such election or elections shall vote for a