in odd years, unless two-thirds of the members elected
thereto shall so determine by yeas and nays; nor shall any
bill become a Law until it be read on three different days
of the Session in each House, unless two-thirds of the mem-
bers elected to the House where such bill is pending shall
so determine by yeas and nays, and no bill shall be read a
third time until it shall have been actually engrossed or
printed for a third reading. (1)

SEC. 28. No bill shall become a Law unless it be passed
in each House by a majority of the whole number of mem-
bers elected, and on its final passage, the yeas and nays be
recorded; nor shall any Resolution, requiring the action of
both Houses, be passed except in the same manner.

SEC. 29. The style of all Laws of this State shall be, "Be
it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland:" and all
Laws shall be passed by original bill; and every Law enacted
by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and
that shall be described in its title; and no Law, nor section
of Law, shall be revived, or amended by reference to its title,
or section only; nor shall any Law be construed by reason of
its title, to grant powers, or confer rights which are not ex-
pressly contained in the body of the Act; and it shall be
the duty of the General Assembly, in amending any article,
or section of the Code of Laws of this State, to enact the
same, as the said article, or section would read when amend-
ed. And whenever the General Assembly shall enact any
Public General Law, not amendatory of any section, or ar-
ticle in the said Code, it shall be the duty of the General
Assembly to enact the same, in articles and sections, in the
same manner, as the Code is arranged, and to provide for
the publication of all additions and alterations, which may
be made to the said Code.

SEC. 3O. Every bill, when passed by the General As-
sembly, and sealed with the Great Seal, shall be presented
to the Governor, who, if he approves it, shall sign the same
in the presence of the presiding officers and Chief Clerks of
the Senate and House of Delegates. Every Law shall be re-
corded in the office of the Court of Appeals, and in due time,
be printed, published and certified under the Great Seal, to
the several Courts, in the same manner as has been hereto-
fore usual in this State.

SEC. 31. No Law passed by the General Assembly shall
take effect, until the first day of June, next after the Session,

1 Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1912, ratified November 4, 1913; and
by Chapter 616, Acts of 1955, adopted by the voters November 6, 1956.