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MARYLAND MANUAL. 347

shall be established, as aforesaid, then the counties of Som-
erset and Worcester shall be entitled to elect but two Dele-
gates each to the General Assembly.

SEC. 5. The county of Wicomico, if formed according to
the provisions of this Constitution, shall be embraced in the
First Judicial Circuit, and the times for holding the courts
therein shall be fixed and determined by the General As-
sembly.

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall pass all such laws as
may be necessary more fully to carry into effect the pro-
visions of his Article.

ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

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
Governor, in at least two newspapers in each county, where
so many may be published, and where not more than one
may be 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 aweek for at least
three months preceding the next ensuing general election, at
which the proposed amendment or amendments shall be sub-
mitted, in a form to beprescribed 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 ap-
pear 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 Governor shall, by his proc-
lamation, declare the said amendment or amendments hav-
ing 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 amend-
ments 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.

 

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