SECTION 1. The General Assembly may propose amend-
ments to this Constitution; provided, that each amendment
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 amendment. The bill or bills proposing amend-
ment or amendments shall be published by order of the Gover-
nor, in at least two newspapers in each county, where so many
may be published, and where not more than one may be pub-
lished, then in that newspaper, and in three newspapers pub-
lished in the city of Baltimore, one of which, shall be in the
German, language, once a week for at least three months pre-
ceding 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 or rejection. The votes cast for and
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-
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
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-