374 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 14, Sec. 2]

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
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
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 thereafter¹, 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

1 Modified by Art. 17, Sec. 9.