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purpose the Senators shall be on oath or affirmation to do jus-
tice according to the law and the evidence; but no person shall
be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the
Senators elected.
SEC. 27. Any bill may originate in either House of the |
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General Assembly, and be altered, amended or rejected by the
other; but no bill shall originate in either House during the
last ten days of the session, unless two-thirds of the members
elected thereto shall so determine by yeas and nays; nor shall
any bill become a law until it be read on three different days
of the session in each House, unless two-thirds of the mem-
bers elected to the House where such bill is pending shall so
determine by yeas and nays; and no bill shall be read a third
time until it shall have been actually engrossed for a third
reading.
[SEC. 27. Any bill may originate in either House of the |
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General Assembly and be altered, amended or rejected by the
other, but no bill shall originate in either House during the
last ten days of the session, unless two-thirds of the members
elected thereto shall so determine by yeas and nays; nor shall
any bill become a law until it be read on three different days
of the session in each House, unless two-thirds of the members
elected to the house where such bill is pending shall so determ-
ine by yeas and nays, and no bill shall be read a third time
until it shall have been actually engrossed or printed for a
third reading.] *
SEC. 28. No bill shall become a law unless it be passed in |
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each House by a majority of the whole number of members
elected, and on its final passage the yeas and nays be record-
ed; nor shall any resolution requiring the action of both
Houses be passed except in the same manner. |
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SEC. 29. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be |
Mode of en-
actment. |
it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland," and all
laws shall be passed by original bill; and every law enacted |
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by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and
that shall be described in its title; and no law, nor section of
law, shall be revived or amended by reference to its title or
section only; nor shall any law be construed by reason of its
title to grant powers or confer rights which are not expressly
contained in the body of the Act; and it shall be the duty of
the General Assembly, in amending any article or section of
the Code of Laws of this State, to enact the same as the said
article or section would read when amended. And whenever
*Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people No-
ember 4, 1913. |
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