MARYLAND MANUAL 351.
counties of the State; a notice of such election shall be given
by the Sheriffs of Worcester and Somerset counties in the
manner now prescribed by law; and in case said new county
shall be established, as aforesaid, then the counties of
Somerset and Worcester shall be entitled to elect but two
Delegates each to the General Assembly..
SEC. 5. The county of Wicomico, if formed according to
the provisions of this Constitution, shall be embraced in the
First Judicial Circuit, and the times for holding the courts
therein shall be fixed and determined by the General As-
sembly..
SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall pass all such laws
as may be necessary more fully to carry into effect the pro-
visions of this Article..
ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
1 SECTION 1. The General Assembly may propose
amendments to this Constitution; provided, that each
amendment shall be embraced in a separate bill, embody-
ing 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 news-
papers, 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
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 ap-
pear 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, declare the said amendment or amendments.
1 Thus amended by the Acts of 1943, Chapter 476, and adopted by the people
of the State at the November election of 1944..
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