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Art. 14] MARYLAND MANUAL 777
the two Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered on the
Journals with the proposed amendment. The requirement
in this section that an amendment proposed by the General
Assembly shall be embraced in a separate bill shall not
be construed or applied to prevent the General Assembly
from (1) proposing in one bill a series of amendments to
the Constitution of Maryland for the general purpose of
removing or correcting constitutional provisions which are
obsolete, inaccurate, invalid, unconstitutional, or duplica-
tive; or (2) embodying in a single Constitutional amend-
ment one or more Articles of the Constitution so long as
•that Constitutional amendment embraces only a single sub-
ject. The bill or bills proposing amendment or amendments
shall be published by order of the Governor, in at least two
newspapers, in each County, where so many may be pub-
lished, 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 As-
sembly, 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 appear to the Governor that a majority of
the votes cast at said election on said amendment or amend-
ments, 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.
1 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
I Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1966.

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