CONSTITUTION — ART. III.

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tracts made for printing, stationery, and purchases for the public offices, and

Contracts

the library, and all expenditures therein, and upon all matters of alleged abuse
in expenditures, to which their attention may be called by resolution of either
house of the General Assembly.

Abuse in
expenditures

SEC 2. 5 Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for
more than three days at any one time, nor adjourn to any other place than that
in which the house shall be sitting, without the concurrent vote of two-thirds
of the members present

Special
adjournments

SEC 26 The House of Delegates shall have the sole power of impeachment
in all cases; but a majority of all the members elected must concur in the im-
peachment All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate, and, when sitting
for that purpose, the senators shall be on oath, or affirmation, to do justice
according to the law and the evidence; but no person shall be convicted with-
out the concurrence of two-thirds of all the senators elected.

Impeachment

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 determine by yeas and nays; and no bill shall be read a
third time until it shall have been actually engrossed for a third reading

Either house
may originate
bills

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 resolution, requiring the action
of both houses, be passed except in the same manner.

Passage of bills

SEC 29 The style of all laws of this State shall be, " Be it enacted by the

Style of laws

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 sub-
ject, and that shall be descibed in its title; and no law, nor 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 Assembly, in amending any article or section of the Code
of Laws of this State, to enact the same as the said article or section would
read when amended. And whenever the General Assembly shall enact any
public general law, not amendatory of any section or article in the said Code,
it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact the same, in articles and
sections, in the same manner as the Code is arranged, and to provide for the
publication of all additions and alterations which may be made to the said
Code

Mode of enact-
ment
46 Md 631, 42
Md 403, 34 Md
163, 30 Md 112,
29 Md 377, 23
Md 512, 7 lid
151, 1852, res
14, 11 Md 525,
14 Md 184, -22
Md 126.

SEC 30 Every bill, when passed by the General Assembly, and sealed with
the great seal, shall be presented to the governor, who, if he approves it, shall
sign the same in the presence of the presiding officers and chief clerks of the
Senate and House of Delegates. Every law shall be recorded in the office of
the Court of Appeals, and in due time be printed, published, and certified under
the great seal, to the several courts, in the some manner as has been heretofore

Bills to be sign-
ed by governor
and recorded in
Court of Ap-
peals
42 Md 203, 41
Md 446, 14 Md
184.

usual in this State
SEC 31 No law passed by the General Assembly shall take effect until the
first day of June, next after the session at which it may be passed, unless it be
otherwise expressly declared therein

When laws to
take effect
14 Md 184, 19
Md 9G, 1865, c
31

SEC 32 No money shall be drawn from the treasury of the State by any
order or resolution, nor except in accordance with an appropriation by law,
and every such law shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object
to which it shall be applied; provided, that nothing herein contained shall pre-
vent the General Assembly from placing a contingent fund at the disposal of

Appropriations
to be made by
law
29 Md 377.
4 Md 189.
Contingent
Fund
1854, c 16