The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-07
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& All which proposed amendments follow i'm
the order described, to wit:
A AfSspEMBERI sass
| ~ ACT to amend section seventeen, of arti-
| CO two of the constitution of this State
SECTION |. Be ii enacted by The General As
Senbl Of Maryland, Three-tifthS of all the
nAmterS OF the two Houses cOncurring. that
the fniowing section be and the same is here
oyprmoSed as an amendment to the consti-
tuuon of this State, and if adopted by the
legal AID qualified voters thereofaS herein
provide, 1t shall Supercede and stand in the
place an instead Of section seventeen or arti-
Gle twod said constitution.
SECr1eN IL. To guard against haSty or par
tlal leghation, and encroachmentS or the
Legislatte department upon the coordinate
iEyecutlv and Judicial departments, every
bill who shall have passed the House Of
Delegates nd the Senate shall before It be-
comeS2 Ia. be presented to the Governor of
me State he approve he shall sign it, but
II not ne shll return It,, with his objections,
TO the Hone in which il originated, which
mouse snail nter the objections at large on
itS Journal, Ad proceed 10 reconsider the bili::;
II after suchreconsideration, three-fifths or
the memberSlected 10 that House shall pass
the bill ii shal be sent with the objections to
the other Hose, by which it shall likewise
be reconsidere. and II 1t passed by three
hiths or the Members elected to that House,
II shall becom a law, but in all such cases
the votes OF DottHouSeS shall be determined
by yeas and nay. and the names OF the per-
sons voting for ad against the bill shall be
entered on the jo rnal Of each House respec-
lively, ifany bill hall not be returned by the
Governor withiniX days Sunday ,exceptedl
after IL snail haVeIeen presented to him, the
same snail be aw in like manner as If he
had signed IL; uniSS the General Assembly
shall. by adjournmnt prevent its return, in
which case IL shalt not be Il law, the Governor
snail nave power disapprOve of any item
or Items ofany billsmaking appropriations
ofmoney. embracing distinct items, and the
part or parts OF the bAl approved shall be the
law, and the Item or Items of appropriations
disapproved shall be void unless repaSSed ac-
cording to the rules Of limitation prescribed
for the passage ofother bills over the execu-
tive veto.
SECTION 2. And be Il further enacted on The
authority lGtOrcSdid, That the said foregoing
secuon hereby proposed as an amendment
10 the Constitution shall be at the next gen.
eral election held in this State submitted TO
the legal and qualified voter thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF the di-
rections contained in article fourteen of the
constitution of the State. and at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment In the constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words "for the consti-
tutlonaI amendment or against the consti-
tuuonal amend dment as the voter shall elect
and Immediately after said election due re-
tupf shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
ment as direct ed by the said fourteenth arti-
Gle OF the constitution.
Approved March 27th, lS90.
We hereby certify. That the aforegong is
correct copy Of an act of the General Assem-
by OF Maryland, passed January session, 1890
w. &. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
('b{ef Clerk n the n Ousp nf taS