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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation and en-

croachments of the legislative department upon the co-ordinate,

executive and judicial departments, every bill which shall have

passed the house of delegates and the senate shall, before it be-

comes a law, be presented to the governor of the State; if he ap-

prove he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it with his ob-

jections to the house in which it originated, which house shall

enter the objections at large on its journal and proceed to recon-

sider the bill; if after such reconsideration, three-fifths of the

members elected to that house shall pass the bill, it shall be sent

with the objections to the other house by which it shall likewise

be reconsidered, and if passed by three-fifths of the members

Proposed
amend-

elected to that house it shall become a law; but in all such cases.

ment.

the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays,

and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall

be entered on the journal of each house respectively; if any bill

shall not be returned by the governor within six days (Sundays

excepted,) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall

be a law in like manner as if he signed it, unless the General

Assembly shall, by adjournment prevent its return, in which case

it shall not be a law; the governor shall have power to disapprove

of any item or items of any bills making appropriations of money

embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the bill ap-

proved shall be the law, and the item or items of appropriations

disapproved shall be void unless repassed according to the rules or

limitations prescribed for the passage of other bills over the

executive veto.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid

That the said foregoing section hereby proposed as an amendment

to the constitution shall be, at the next general election held in

this State, submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof for

their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the directions con-

tained in article fourteen of the constitution of this State, and at

By ballot.

the said general election the vote on said proposed amendment to

the constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there

shall be written or printed the words, " for the constitutional

amendment" or " against the¹ constitutional amendment" as the

voter shall elect, and immediately after said election due return

shall be made to the governor of the vote for and against said

proposed amendment, as directed by the said fourteenth article of

the constitution.

Approved March 27, 1890.