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Meadow Bridge to the Potomac River, previous to the adoption or rejec-
tion of this Constitution, and at the expense of said petitioners.

Sec. 4. At the first general election held under this Constitution the
qualified voters of said new County shall he entitled to elect a Senator and
two Delegates to the General Assembly, and all such County or other officers
as this Constitution may authorize, or require to be elected by other Coun-
ties of the State; a notice of such election shall be given by the sheriffs of
Worcester and Somerset Counties in the manner now prescribed by Law;
and in case said new County shall be established, as aforesaid, then the
Counties of Somerset and Worcester shall be entitled to elect but two Dele-
gates each to the General Assembly.

Sec. 5. The County of Wicomico, if formed according to the provisions
of this Constitution, shall be embraced in the First Judicial Circuit, and
the times for holding the Courts therein shall be fixed and determined by
the General Assembly.

Sec. 6. The General Assembly shall pass all such Laws as may be neces-
sary more fully to carry into effect the provisions of this Article.

ARTICLE XIV.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

Section 1. The General Assembly may propose Amendments to this
Constitution; provided that each Amendment shall be embraced in a
separate Bill, embodying the Article or Section, as the same will stand
when amended and passed by three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered on the Journals with the
proposed Amendment. The Bill or Bills proposing amendment or amend-
ments shall be published by order of the Governor, in at least two news-
papers in each County, where so many may be published, and where not
more than one may be published, then in that newspaper, and in three
newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the
German language, once a week for at least three months 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 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 amend-
ment 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 Con-
stitution. 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.

A proposed amendment to the Constitution need not be submitted to the Gov-
ernor for his approval before it is voted on by the people, and the Governor has no