36 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. II

and proceed to reconsider the Bill; if, after such reconsideration, three-
fifths of the members elected to that House shall pass the Bill, it shall
be sent with the objections to the other House, by which it shall like-
wise be reconsidered, and if it pass by three-fifths of the members
elected to that House it shall become a law; but in all such cases the
votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the
names of the persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered
on the Journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be
returned by the Governor within six days (Sundays excepted), after
it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like
manner as if he signed it, unless the General Assembly shall, by adjourn-
ment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

[Sec. 17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation and encroach-
ments of the Legislative Department upon the co-ordinate Executive
and Judicial Departments, every Bill which shall have passed the House
of Delegates, and the Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented
to the Governor of the State; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not
he shall return it with his objections to the House in which it originated,
which House shall enter the objections at large on its Journal and
proceed to reconsider the Bill; if, after such reconsideration, three-
fifths of the members elected to that House shall pass the Bill, it shall
be sent with the objections to the other House, by which it shall like-
wise be reconsidered, and if it pass by three-fifths of the members elected
to that House it shall become a law; but in all such cases the votes of
both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the
persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal
of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the
Governor within six days (Sundays excepted), after it shall have been
presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he signed
it, unless the General Assembly shall, by adjournment, prevent its
return, in which case it shall not be a law.

The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items of
any Bills making appropriations of money embracing distinct items,
and the part or parts of the Bill approved shall be the law, and the item
or items of appropriations disapproved shall be void unless repassed
according to the rules or limitations prescribed for the passage of other
Bills over the Executive veto.]*

This section has no application to a proposed constitutional amendment.
This section referred to as showing the distinction between a bill and a
law, and in construing article 14, section 1—see notes thereto. Warfield v.
Vandiver, 101 Md. 113.

A bill proposing an amendment to the constitution in accordance with
article 14, section 1, does not require the approval of the Governor before it
may be voted on by the people; hence the Governor may not veto such a
bill. Bills held not to contain such distinct legislation as to require the
approval of the Governor. Warfield v. Vandiver, 101 Md. 113.

This section referred to in determining that after a bill had been passed
by both houses of the legislature and presented to the Governor for his

*Thus amended by the act of 1890, chapter 194, ratified November 3, 1891.