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 once a week for four weeks immediately
preceding the next ensuing general election, at which the 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, de-
clare the said amendment or amendments having received
said majority votes, to have been adopted by the people of
Maryland as part of the Constitution thereof, and thence-
forth said amendment 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.

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

* Thus amended by the Acts of 1943, Chapter 476, and adopted by the people of the State
at the November election of 1944.