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
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 de-
termine 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
each House by a majority of the whole number of mem-
bers elected, and on its final passage the yeas and. nays be
recorded; 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
it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland," and all
laws shall be passed by original bill; and every law enacted
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
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-
son 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's 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.

*Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1812, ratified by the people No-
vember 4,1418.