98 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. XV

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 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 Consti-
tution 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 eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, and every twenty years thereafter, the sense
of the people in regard to calling a convention for altering this Consti-
tution; 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 elec-
tion of Delegates thereto. Each County and Legislative District of
the City of Baltimore shall have in such convention a number of Dele-
gates 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 con-
vention, shall be submitted to the voters 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 (except 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
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 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.