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
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 nineteen hundred and seventy, 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,

1 Thus amended by Chapter 476. Acts of 1943, ratified November 7, 1944.
2 Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.