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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.*
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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.
Dunn vs. Brager, 116 Md.
SEC. 29. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be |
Passage of
bills. |
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it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland," and all |
Style of laws. |
laws shall be passed by original bill; and every law enacted
by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and |
Mode of en-
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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
the General Assembly shall enact any Public General Law
not amendatory of any section or article in the said Code, it
shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact the same
in articles and sections, in the same manner as the Code is ar
ranged, and to provide for the publication of all additions and
alterations which may be made to the said Code.
Davis vs. State, 7 Md., 151. Keller vs. State, 11 Md., 525. Parkin
BOH vs. State, 14 Md., 184. Trustees of Allegany Co. School vs. Maffit
22 Md., 126. McPherson vs. Leonard, 29 Md., 377. Cearfoss vs. State
42 Md., 403. McGrath vs. State, 46 Md., 632. Co. Commrs., of Dor
Chester Co. vs. Meekins, 50 Md., 28. Second German-American Bldg
Asso. vs. Newman, 50 Md., 62. Co. Commrs, of Talbot Co. vs. Co
Commrs, of Queen Anne Co., 50 Md., 245. Mayor, &c., of Balto vs
Reitz, 50 Md., 574. State vs. Fox, 51 Md., 411. Co. Commrs, of Prince
George's Co. vs. Commrs, of Laurel, 51 Md., 457. Mayor, &c., of Balto
vs. Stoll, 52 Md., 435. Mainland Agricultural College vs. Keating, 5
Md., 580. Steifel vs. Maryland Institute for the Blind, 61 Md., 144
Slymen vs. State, 62 Md., 237. State vs. Norris, 70 Md., 91. Trustee
Catholic, etc., vs. Manning, 72 Md., 116. Ellicott Co. vs. Speed, 72 Md
*Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people No
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