CONSTITUTION—ARTICLE XIV.

1 General Assembly may propose amend- ments, to be passed by three-firths of each house, publication in newspapers, submission to voters, returns to gover-

nor, proclamation by governor, each amendment to be voted on separately 2 Convention every twenty years, number of delegates, submission to voters.

SECTION 1 The General Assembly may propose amendments to this Consti- tution; provided, that each Amendment shall be embraced in a separate bill, embodying the article or section, as the same will stand when emended and passed by throe-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	General Assem- bly may propose amendments, to be passed by three-fifths of each house.
The bill or bills, proposing amendment or amendments, shall be published by order of the governor, in at least two newspapers in each county, where so many may be published, mid where not more than one may bo 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 said pro-	Publication in newspapers
posed 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 stud proposed amendment or amend-	Submission to voters.
ments, 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 cost at said election on said amendment or amendments, severally, were	Returns to governor.
cast in favor thereof, the governor shall, by his proclamation, declare the said amendment or amendments, having received said majority of votes, to have been adopted by the people of Maryland as part of the Constitution thereof,	Proclamation of governor.
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 sub- mitted, as that each amendment shall be voted on separately	Each amend- ment to be voted on sepa- rately.
SEC 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law for taking, at the general election to bo held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and every twenty years thereafter, the sense of the people in regard to calling a convention for altering this Constitution; and if a majority of voters at such election or elections shall vote for a convention, the General Assembly, at its next session, shall provide by law fur the assembling of such convention, and for the election of delegates thereto Each county and legis- lative district of the city of Baltimore, shall have in such convention a number	Convention every 20 years. 1858, c 235
of delegates equal to its representation in both houses at the time at which the convention is called But any constitution, or change, or amendment of the	Number of delegates
existing Constitution, which may be adopted by such convention, shall be sub- mitted to the voters of this State, and shall have no effect unless the same shall have been adopted by a majority of the voters voting thereon.	Submission to voters