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MARYLAND MANUAL. 27 THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES SHALL HAVE SOLE POWER to impeach, and that only by a maJority vote of members elected. The Senate shall act in impeachment cases, and two-thirds of all the Senators elected are required to convict. Art. III, Sec. 26, Const. EITHER HOUSE MAY ORIGINATE BILLS. No bill, except by a two-thirds vote of members elected to the House in which it is proposed, shall be originated during the last ten days of a session. No bill can become a law except it has been read on three different days in each House, except by a two-thirds vote of the House, in which such bill is pending. No bill shall be read a third time until it shall have been actually engrossed for a third reading. Art. III, Sec. 27, Const. IT REQUIRES A MAJORITY VOTE. the yeas and tiayg recorded, to pass a bill or resolution in either House.— Art. III, Sec. 28, Const. "BE it ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARY- LAND," is the enacting clause of all laws passed by the Legislature. Laws shall embrace but one subject, and that shall be described in its title. No law can be amended or revised lay reference to the title and sec- tion only, but the law shall be amended as it shall read when enacted. The General Assembly shall provide for the publication of all alterations and additions made to the Code. Art. III, Sec. 29, Const. LAWS SHALL BE RECORDED IN THE COURT OF APPEALS, and shall be published, printed and certified to the several Courts under the Great Seal of the State. Art. III, Sec. 30, Const. LAWS, UNLESS OTHERWISE ENACTED, take effect on the first of June next, after the session, at which it may be passed. Art. III, Sec. 31, Const. No MONEY SHALL BE DRAWN from the State Treasury by order or resolution, but must be drawn by law, which must specify exactly the sum and object. The Legis- lature, however, has right to vote the Governor a snm of money for contingent expenses. An accurate state- ment of the receipts and expenditures of the public monies must be published with the laws after each regular session of the Legislature. Art. III, See. 32, Const. LOCAL OR SPECIAL LAWS cannot be. passed by the Legislature in the following cases:—For extending the |
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