348 MARYLAND MANUAL.
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 tile assembling of such convention, and
for the election of Delegates thereto. Bach county and Leg-
islative District of the City of Baltimore shall have in such
convention a number of Delegates equal to its representation
in both Houses at the time at which the convention is called.
But any Constitution, or change, or amendment, of the exist-
ing Constitution, which may be adopted by such convention
shall be submitted to the voters of this State, and shall have
no effect unless the same shall have been adopted by a ma-
jority of the voters voting thereon.
ARTICLE XV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION 1. Every person holding any office created by,
or existing under the Constitution or laws of the State (ex-
cept Justices of the Peace, Constables and Coroners), or
holding any appointment under any court of this State,
whose pay or compensation is derived from fees or moneys
coming into his hands for the discharge of his official duties,
or in any way growing out of or connected with his office,
shall keep a book in which shall be entered every sum or
sums of money received by him, or on his account, as a pay-
ment or compensation for his performance of official duties,
a copy of which entries in said book, verified by the oath of
the officer by whom it is directed to be kept, shall be re-
turned yearly to the Comptroller of the State for his inspec-
tion, and that of the General Assembly of the State, to which
the Comptroller shall, at each regular session thereof, make
a report shelving what officers have complied with this sec-
tion ; and each of the said officers, when the amount received
by him for the year shall exceed the sum which he is by law
entitled to retain as his salary or compensation for the dis-
charge of his duties, and for the expenses of his office, shall
yearly pay over to the Treasurer of the State, the amount
of such excess, subject to such disposition thereof as the
General Assembly may direct; if any of such officers shall
fail to comply with the requisitions of this section for the
period of thirty days after the expiration of each and every
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