CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	which the Governor and Senate have the
	power to fill, the Governor shall nominate
	to the Senate before its final adjournment,
	a proper person to fill said vacancy, un-
	less such vacancy occurs within ten days
	before said final adjournment.
	Sec. 15. The Governor may suspend or	Section 4.31. Appointment and Removal of
	arrest any military officer of the State for	Other Persons.
	disobedience of orders, or other military	All persons in the executive branch whose
	offense; and may remove him in pursuance	method of appointment or whose method of
	of the sentence of a Court-Martial; and	removal is not specified in this Constitution
	may remove for incompetency, or miscon-	shall be appointed or may be removed as the
	duct, all civil officers who received appoint- ment from the Executive for a term of	General Assembly may prescribe by law.
	years.
	Sec. 16. The Governor shall convene the	See Section 3.15, Sessions, p. 3.
	Legislature, or the Senate alone, on extra-
	ordinary occasions; and whenever from
	the presence of an enemy, or from any other
	cause, the Seat of Government shall become
	an unsafe place for the meeting of the
	Legislature, he may direct their sessions
	to be held at some other convenient place.
	Sec. 17. To guard against hasty or	Section 4.13. Veto Power.
	partial legislation and encroachments of the Legislative Department upon the co- ordinate Executive and Judicial Depart- ments, every Bill which shall have passed	The governor may veto any bill passed by the General Assembly except a budget bill or a bill proposing an amendment to this Con- stitution.
	the House of Delegates, and the Senate
	shall, before it becomes a law, be presented	Section 4.15. Action on Bills by the Gover-
	to the Governor of the State; if he approve	nor.
	he shall sign it, but if not he shall return	A bill subject to veto shall become law if
	it with his objections to the House in which	the governor signs or fails to veto it within
	it originated, which House shall enter the	twenty days after presentation, if the General
	objections at large on its Journal and pro-	Assembly is in session. If the General Assem-
	ceed to reconsider the Bill; if, after such	bly has adjourned sine die before the bill be-
	reconsideration, three-fifths of the members	comes law, the bill shall become law if the
	elected to that House shall pass the Bill,	governor signs or fails to veto it within thir-
	it shall be sent with the objections to the	ty days after presentation.
	other House, by which it shall likewise be
	reconsidered, and if it pass by three-fifths	Section 4.16. Return of Vetoed Bills.
	of the members elected to that House it	If the governor vetoes a bill while the
	shall become a Law; but in all such cases	General Assembly is in session, he shall return
	the votes of both Houses shall be deter-	it promptly to the General Assembly. If the
	mined by yeas and nays, and the names of	governor vetoes a bill after the General As-
	the persons voting for and against the Bill	sembly has adjourned sine die, he shall re-
	shall be entered on the Journal of each	turn it promptly either to the next regular
	House respectively. If any Bill shall not be	session of the same General Assembly or to a
	returned by the Governor within six days	special session of the same General Assembly
	(Sundays excepted), after it shall have been	convened for the purpose of reconsidering
	presented to him, the same shall be a	bills that have been vetoed. A bill shall be-
	Law in like manner as if he signed it,	come law if passed over the veto by the
	unless the General Assembly shall, by ad-	affirmative vote of three-fifths of all the
	journment, prevent its return, in which case	members of each house. The law shall take
	it shall not be a Law.	effect on the first day of July after passage,

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