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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 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 Constitu-
tion. If the General Assembly determines that a
proposed Constitutional amendment affects only
one county or the City of Baltimore, the pro-
posed amendment shall be part of the Constitu-
tion if it receives a majority of the votes cast in
the State and in the affected county or City of
Baltimore, as the case may be. When two or more
amendments shall be submitted 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. IA.'"" A proposed Constitutional
amendment which, by provisions that are of lim-
ited duration, provides for a period of transition,
or a unique schedule under which the terms of
the amendment are to become effective, shall set
forth those provisions in the amendment as a sec-
tion or sections of a separate article, to be known
as "provisions of limited duration", and state the
date upon which or the circumstances under
which those provisions shall expire. If the Consti-
tutional amendment is adopted, those provisions
of limited duration shall have the same force and
effect as any other part of the Constitution, ex-
cept that they shall remain a part of the Consti-
tution only so long as their terms require. Each
new section of the article known as "provisions of
limited duration" shall refer to the title and sec-
tion of the other article of the Constitution of
which it, temporarily, is a part.
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 Constitu-
tion; and if a majority of voters at such election
or elections shall vote for a Convention, the Gen-
eral Assembly, at its next session, shall provide
by Law for the assembling of such convention,
and for the election of Delegates thereto. Each
'"" Added by Chapter 680, Acts of 1977, ratified November 7,
1978
'*" Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified No-
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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 amend-
ment of the existing Constitution, which may be
adopted by such Convention, shall be submitted to
the voters of this State, and shall have no effect un-
less the same shall have been adopted by a majori-
ty of the voters voting thereon.
ARTICLE XV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION 1.'" Every person holding any of-
fice created by, or existing under the Con-
stitution, or Laws of the State, 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 dis-
charge of his official duties, 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 ac-
count, as a payment or compensation for his per-
formance 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 re-
port showing what officers have complied with
this Section; and each of the said officers, when
the amount received by him for the year shall ex-
ceed the sum which he is by Law entitled to re-
tain, as his salary or compensation for the dis-
charge of his duties, and for the expenses of his
office, shall yearly pay over to the Treasurer of
the State the amount of such excess, subject to
such disposition thereof as the General Assembly
may direct; if any of such officers shall fail to
comply with the requisitions of this section for
the period of thirty days after the expiration of
each and every year of his office, such officer
shall be deemed to have vacated his office, and
the Governor shall declare the same vacant, and
the vacancy therein shall be filled as in the case
of vacancy for any other cause, and such officer
shall be subject to suit by the State for the
amount that ought to be paid into the Treasury.
SEC. 2.'" Any elected official of the State, or
of a county or of a municipal corporation who
'" Thus amended by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified No-
vember 7,1978
'" Originally Article XV, sec 3, renumbered by Chapter 681,
Acts of 1977, ratified November 7, 1978