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having received said majority 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
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 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 existing Constitution, which may be
adopted by such convention, shall be submitted to the vot-
ers of this State, and shall have no effect unless the same
shall have been adopted by a majority 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 du-
ties, 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 his account,
as payment 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 returned yearly to the Comptroller of the State for his
inspection, and that of the General Assembly of the State,
to which the Comptroller shall, at each regular session.
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