ments shall be tried by the Senate, and when sitting for that
purpose the Senators shall be on oath or affirmation to do
justice 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 mem-
bers 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 determine 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 members
elected and on its final passage the yeas and nays be re-
corded ; nor shall any resolution requiring the action of both
Houses be passed except in the same manner.

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
arranged, and to provide for the publication of all additions
and alterations which may be made to the said Code.

SEC. 30. Every bill, when passed by the General Assem-
bly, and sealed with the Great Seal, shall be presented to the
Governor, who, if he approved it, shall sign the same in the
presence of the presiding officers and chief clerks of the
Senate and House of Delegates. Every law shall be recorded

'Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people
November i, 1913.