^ 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,
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 a 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
thereof, make a report showing what officers have complied
with this Section; and each of the said officers, when the
amount received by him for the year shall exceed the sum
which he is by Law entitled to retain, as his salary or com-
pensation for the discharge of his duties, and for the ex-
penses of his office, shall yearly pay over to the Treasurer
of the State the amount of such excess, subject to such

'Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
^Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.