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unless three-fourths of the members of the House where
such bill is pending shall so determine.

Sec. 21. No bill shall become a law unless it be passed
in each House by a majority of the whole number of mem-
bers elected, and on its final passage the ayes and noes be
recorded.

Passage of Bills.

Sec. 28. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be
it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland," and all
laws shall be passed by original bill, and every law enacted
by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject,
and that shall be described in the title; and no law nor
section of a law shall be revised or amended by reference to
its title or section only; and it shall be the duty of the
General Assembly, in amending any article or section of
the code of laws of this State, to enact the same as the said
article or section would read when amended. And whenever
the General Assembly shall enact any public general law,
not amendatory of any section or article in the said code,
it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact the
same in articles and sections, in the same manner as the
said code is arranged; and to provide for the publication

Style of Laws.

Mode of enact-
ment.

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of all additions and alterations which may be made to the
said code.

Amendments.

Sec. 29. Every bill, when passed by the General Assem-
bly, and sealed with the Great Seal, shall be presented to
the Governor, who shall sign the same in the presence of
the presiding officers and chief clerks of the Senate and
House of Delegates. Every law shall be recorded in the
office of the Court of Appeals, and in due time be printed,
published, and certified under the Great Seal to the several
courts, in the same manner as has been heretofore usual in
this State.

Bills to be signed
by Governor, and
recorded in Court
of Appeals.

14 Md. 184.

Sec. 30. No law passed by the General Assembly shall
take effect until the first day of June next after the session
at which it may be passed, unless it be otherwise expressly
declared therein; and in case any public law is made to
take effect before the said first day of June, the General

When Laws take
effect.

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