Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-10-16
CHAPTER Ia4.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen of articl
two of the constitution of the State


AN ACT to amend section seventeen Of article
two Of the constitution of the State.
Section /. 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 consi-
tuition Of this State, and if adopted by the le-
gal and qualified voters thereof as herein pro-
vided, il shall supersede and stand in the
place and instead of section seventeen of ar
ticle two OF said constitution. ..
Section II. To guard against hasty or par
tial legislation, and encroachments of the Lee
gislative department upon the coordinate Ex-
ecutive 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 10 which il originated, which house
shall enter the objections at large on its jour
nal, and proceed 10 reconsider the bill il after
such reconsideration, three-fifths of the MEM
bers elected to that house shall pass the bill,
it shall be sent with the objections to the 9TH
er house, by which it shall likewise be recon-
sidered, and if passed by three-ffths of the
members elected to that house, it shall be-
come a law, but in all such cases the votes of
bOth HOuoc5 oHdIl Uc utt0Tulutu ny yeas anu
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 a law
in like manner as if he signed it; unless the
Genera Assembly shall by adjournment pre-
vent its return, in which case it shall not be a
law; the Governor shall have power to dis
approve OF any item or items Of any bills
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 shall
be void unless repassed according to the rules
or limitations prescribed for The passage Of
other bills over the executive veto.
Section 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 10 the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
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
amendmen. TO the constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
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 for
and against said proposed amendment, as di-
recied by the said fourteenth article OF the con-
stitution.f 'f8
Approved March 27th, 1890
We hereby certify, That the atoregoiug is Il
correct copy of an act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland passed January session, 1890.
W. G PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.