Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-07-31
CHAPTER 1874.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen Of articl
tWn of the constitution of the StatA


AN ACT to amend section seventeen of article
two of the constitution of the State.
Section l.. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, Three-fifths Of all the
members of the two Houses concurring, that
the following section be and the same is here
by proposed as an amendment to the consti-
tuition Of this State, and if adopted by the le-
gal and qualified voters thereof as herein pro-
vided, ii shall supersede and stand in the
place and instead of section seventeen of ar
ticle two or said constitution.
Section II. To guard against hasty or par
tial legislation, and encroachments of the Lee
gislative department upon the coordinate Ex-
ecutivs and Judicial departments, every bill
which shall have passed the House Of Dele
gates and the Senate, shall before it becomes a
law be presented to the Governor of the State;
if he approve, he shall sign it, but If not he
shall return it, with his objections, to the
house in which ii originated, which house
shall enter the objections at large on its jour
nal, and proceed TO reconsider the bill ; il after
such reconsideration, three-fifths of the men,
bers elected to that house shall pass the bill
it shall be sent with the objections to the 9TH
er house, by which 1t shall likewise be recon-
sidered, and if passed by three-ffths Of the
members elected to that house, it shall be.
come law, but in all such cases the votes oi
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 ifany 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 Law
in like manner as if he signed it, unless the
General Assembly shall by adjournment pre-
vent its return, in which case it shall not be 6
law; the Governor shall have power to dis
approve Of any item or items Of any billI
making appropriations of money, embracing
distinct items, and the part or parts Of the
bill approved shall be the law, and the item
or items of appropriations disapproved shal
be void unless repassed according to the rule.
or Limitations prescribed for the passage o
other bills over the executive veto.
Section Q. And be it further enacted by thu
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment tt
the Constitution shall be at the next genera
election held in this State, submitted to tn,
legal and qualified voters thereof for theil
adoption or rejection, in pursuance Of the di
rections contained in article fourteen of the
constitution of this State, and at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall b,
written or printed the words "for the consti
tutional amendment" or against the consti
tutional amendment as the voter shall elect
and Immediately after said election due return
shall be made to the Governor of the vote fo
and against said proposed amendment as di
rected by the said fourteenth article of the con
stitution.
Approved March 9th, 1890.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is
correct copy Of an act of the General Assem-
bly, OF Mary land passed January session, 1890
W, G PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House OF Delegates.