24 CONSTITUTION OF THE

Journals to be
published

SEC. 15. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceed-
ings, and cause the same to be published. The yeas and

Yeas and Nays
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nays of members on any question shall, at the call of any
five of them, in the House of Delegates, or one in the Sen-
ate, be entered on the journal.

Special Adjourn-
ments

SEC. 16. Neither House shall, without the consent of the
other, adjourn for more than three days; nor to any other
place than that in which the House shall be 'sitting, without
the concurrent vote of two-thirds of the members present.

Style of Laws.

SEC. 17. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be
it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, " and all

Mode of their
enactment

11 Md 525.
14 Md 184.
7 Md. 151

laws shall be passed by original bill, and every law enacted
by the Legislature shall embrace bat one subject, and that
shall be described in the title, and no law or section of law
shall be revived, amended or repealed by reference to its
title or section only; and it shall be the duty of the Legis-
lature, at the first session after the adoption of this Consti-
tution, to appoint two commissioners learned in the law, to

Codification of
laws

1862, Res 4.
1860, ch 1.

revise and codify the laws of this State; and the said com-
missioners shall report the said code, so formed, to the Legis-
lature, within a time to be by it determined, for its approval,
amendment, or rejection; and if adopted, after the revision
and codification of the said laws, it shall be the duty of the

Amendments

Legislature, in amending any article or section thereof, to
enact the same as the said article or section would read when

Additions.

amended. And whenever the Legislature shall enact any
public general law, not amendatory of any section or article
in the said code, it shall be the duty of the Legislature to
enact the same in articles and sections, in the same manner
as the said code may be arranged; and to provide for the
publication of all additions and alternations which may
be made to the said code, and it shall also be the duty of
the Legislature to appoint one or more commissioners

Rules of Practice,
Pleading and
Conveyancing
to be revised

1892. Res. 14.

learned in the law, whose duty it shall be to revise, simplify,
and abridge the rules of practice, pleadings, forms of con-
veyancing, and proceedings of the Courts of Record in this
State.

Either House
may originate

SEC. 18. 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 three days of the session, or become a law, until it
be read on three different days of the session in each House,
unless three-fourths of the members of the House, where
such bill is pending, shall so determine.