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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 necessary 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
amendments shall be published by order of the Governor, in at
least two newspapers 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 amend-
ment or amendments shall be submitted, in a form to be pre-
scribed 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 amend-
ments, severally, were cast in favor thereof, the Governor shall,
by his proclamation, declare the said amendment or amend-
ments 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 Constitution. When two or more amend-
ments 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.
Worman et al. v. Hagan et al., 78 Md. 152.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
provide by Law for taking, at the general election to be held in
the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and every twenty
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