Section 1. The General Assembly may
propose Amendments to this Constitu-
tion; 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 amendment,
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 news-
papers published in the City of Balti-
more, one of which shall be in the Ger-
man language, once a week, for at least
three months preceding the next ensuing
general election, at which the said pro-
posed amendment, or amendments shall
be submitted, in a form to be prescribed
by the General Assembly, to the quali-
fied voters of the State for adoption or
rejection. The votes cast for and against
said proposed amendment, or amend-
ments, 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 Governor shall, by his
Proclamation, declare the said amend-
ment, or amendments, having received
said majority of votes, to have been
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adopted by the People of Maryland as
part of the Constitution thereof, and
thenceforth said amendment, or amend-
ments shall be part of the said Constitu-
tion. 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.
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 call-
ing a Convention for altering this Con-
stitution; 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 Legislative 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 Conven-
tion is called. But any Constitution, or
change, or amendment of the existing
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 majority of the voters vot-
ing thereon.
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