lxxviii CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 15.

general election, at which the said 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 Proclama-

tion, declare the said amendment, or amendments, having re-

ceived 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.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pro-
vide by Law for taking, at the general election to be held in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and every twenty years
thereafter, the sense of the People in regard to calling a Conven-
tion 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 for
the assembling of such Convention, and for the election of
Delegates thereto. Each County, and Legislative District of the
City of Baltimore, shall have in such Convention a number 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 existing Constitution, which may
be adopted by such Convention, shall be submitted 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.

ARTICLE XV.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 1. Every person holding any office created by, or
^existing under the Constitution, or Laws of the State, (except