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MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. XV

Proclamation .

cast in favor thereof, the Governor shall, by his procla-
mation, 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 Consti-
tution 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 amend-
ment shall be voted on separately.
Worman et al. v. Hagan et al., 78 Md. 152.

Convention
every twenty
years.

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 Con-
stitution; and if a majority of voters at such election or
elections shall vote for a convention, the General Assem-
bly, at its next session, shall provide by Law for the
assembling of such convention, arid for the election of
Delegates thereto. Each County and Legislative Dis-
trict of the City of Baltimore shall have in such conven-
tion a number of Delegates equal to its representation in
both Houses at the time at which the convention is
called. But any Constitution, or change, or amendment
of the existing Constitution, which may be adopted by
such convention, shall be submitted to the voters of this
State, and shall have no effect unless the same shall have
been adopted by a majority of the voters voting thereon.

ARTICLE XV.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Returns of
fees.

Section i. Every person holding any office created by,
or existing under the Constitution, or Laws of the State
(except Justices of the Peace, Constables and Coroners),
or holding any appointment under any Court of this
State, whose pay or compensation is derived from fees or
moneys coming into his hands for the discharge of his
official duties, or. in any way growing out of or connected
with his office, shall keep a book in which shall be
entered every sum or sums of money received by him,
or on his account, as a payment or compensation for his
performance of official duties, a copy of which entries in
said book, verified by the oath of the officer by whom