in the manner prescribed in other cases, and if it shall ap-
pear to the Governor that a majority of the rotes 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.

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 the 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 he 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 bis 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-