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be published, and where not more than one may he 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 amend-
ment or amendments shall be submitted, in a form to be pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, to the qualified voters of |
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the State for adoption or rejection. The votes cast for and |
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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, severally, were cast in favor thereof, the Gov- |
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ernor 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.
Worman et al. vs. Hagen, et al„ 78 Md., 152. Warfield vs. 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 Legisla-
tive District of the city of Baltimore shall have in such con-
vention 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 ef-
fect unless the same shall have been adopted by a majority of
the voters voting thereon. |
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