PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND
REFERENDA TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE
PEOPLE AT THE GENERAL ELECTION
IN NOVEMBER, 1944

(Acts of 1943)

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
ARTICLE 38 - DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1943 submits an amendment to
repeal Article 38 of the Declaration of Rights.

(This amendment will be voted upon by the people at the November election 1944).
ARTICLE XIV, Section 1

1. The General Assembly may propose Amendments to
this Constitution; provided, that each Amendment shall be em-
braced 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 amend-
ments shall be published by order of the Governor, in at least
two newspapers, in each County, where so many may be pub-
lished, and where not more than one may be published, then
in that newspaper, and in three newspapers published in the
City of Baltimore, once a week for four weeks immediately
preceding the next ensuing general election, at which the
proposed amendment or amendments shall be submitted, in a
form to be prescribed 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 amend-
ment or amendments, severally, were cast in favor thereof,
the Governor shall; by his proclamation, declare the said
amendment or amendments having received said majority
of votes, to have been adopted by the people of Maryland as
part of the Constitution thereof, and thenceforth said amend-
ment or amendments shall be part of the said Constitution.
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.

This amendment was submitted by Chapter 476 of the Acts of 1943 and
will be voted upon by the people in November, 1944.