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ART. XIV] CONSTITUTION. |
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officers as this Constitution may authorize, or require to
be elected by other Counties of the State; a notice of such
election shall be given by the sheriffs of Worcester and
Somerset Counties in the manner now prescribed by
Law; and in case said new County shall be established,
as aforesaid, then the Counties of Somerset and Worces-
ter shall be entitled to elect but two Delegates each to
the General Assembly.
Sec. 5. The County of Wicomico, if formed according
to the provisions of this Constitution, shall be embraced
in the 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. |
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ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. |
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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 same 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 Amend-
ment. The Bill or Bills proposing amendment or amend-
ments 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 news-
papers 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
election, at which the proposed amendment or amend-
ments 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, sev-
erally, 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 elec-
tion on said amendment or amendments, severally, were |
Proposal.
Publications.
Vote.
Returns. |
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