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county, where 80 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
election, 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 |
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Vote. |
or rejection. The votes cast for and against said proposed |
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Returns. |
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 amend-
ments, severally, were cast in favor thereof, the Governor |
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Proclamation. |
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 Con-
stitution thereof, and thenceforth said amendment or amend-
ments 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.
Worman et al. v. Hagen, et al., 78 Md., 152. Warfield v. Vandiver,
101 Md., 78.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to |
Convention
every
twenty
years. |
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 convention, the General Assembly, at its next session,
shall provide by law for the assembling of such convention,
and for the election of Delegates thereto. Each county and
Legislative District of the city of Baltimore shall have in
such convention a number of Delegates equal to it» represen-
tation 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 con-
vention, 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. |
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