44 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. III

no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of
all the Senators elected.

Sec. 27. Any bill may originate in either House of the General
Assembly, and be altered, amended or rejected by the other; but no
bill shall originate in either House during the last ten days of the
session, unless two-thirds of the members elected thereto shall so deter-
mine by yeas and nays; nor shall any bill become a law until it be
read on three different days of the session in each House, unless two-
thirds of the members elected to the House where such bill is pending
shall so determine by yeas and nays.; and 110 bill shall be read a third
time until it shall have been actually engrossed for a third reading.

Sec. 27. Any bill may originate in either House of the General
Assembly and be altered, amended or rejected by the other, but no bill
shall originate in either House during the last ten days of the session,
unless two-thirds of the members elected thereto shall so determine by
yeas and nays; nor shall any bill become a law until it be read on three
different days of the session in each House, unless two-thirds of the
members elected to the House where such bill is pending shall so deter-
mine by yeas and nays, and no bill shall be read a third time until it
shall have been actually engrossed or printed for a third reading.]*

This section referred to in construing article 15 of the declaration of
rights—see notes thereto. State v. C. & P. R. R. Co., 40 Md. 53 (dissenting
opinion).

See notes to section 30.

Sec. 28. No bill shall become a law unless it be passed in each
House by a majority of the whole number of members elected, and on
its final passage the yeas and nays be recorded; nor shall any/ resolu-
tion requiring the action of both Houses be passed except in the same
manner.

The concluding words of an act held not to be nugatory as an attempt to
re-enact a prior act in violation of this section; it is not to be presumed
that the legislature intended to do an unconstitutional thing. Tenimick v.
Owings, 70 Md. 251.

This section referred to in construing article 15 of the declaration of
rights—see notes thereto. State v. O. & P. R, R. Co., 40 Md. 53 (dissenting
opinion).

Cited but not construed in Dunn v. Brager, 116 Md. 245.
See notes to section 30.

Sec. 29. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be it enacted
by the General Assembly of Maryland," and all laws shall be passed
by original bill; and every law enacted by the General Assembly shall
embrace but one subject, and that shall be described in its title; and no
Jaw, or section of law, shall be revived or amended by reference to its
title or section only; nor shall any law be construed by reason of its
title to grant powers or confer rights which are not expressly contained
in the body of the Act; and it shall be the duty of the General Assem-

*Thus amended by the act of 1912, chapter 497, ratified November 4, 1913.