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Art. 15] MARYLAND MANUAL 711
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, 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- 1 Thus amended 17 Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956. 2 Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956. |
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