ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly may propose amend-
ments to this Constitution; 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 newspapers published in
the City of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the German
language, once a week for at least three months preceding the
next ensuing general election, at which the proposed amend-
ment or amendments shall be submitted, in a form to be pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, to the qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection. The votes cast for and against
said proposed amendment or amendments, 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 amend-
ments, severally, were cast in favor thereof, the Governor shall,
by his proclamation, declare the said amendment or amend-
ments having 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. Each county and Legislative
District of the City of Baltimore shall have in such con-
vention 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