The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-15
CHAPTER 1874.

NUMBER !.
CHAPTER 1874.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen, of
article two of the constitution of this
State.
SECTION /. Be it enacted By the General
assembly Of MARYLAND, Three-ffths of all
the members of the two Houses concurring,
that the following section be and the same is
hereby proposed as an amendment to the
constitution of this State, and if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof as here
in provided. it shall supersede and stand IN
the place and instead Of section seventeen OF
article two of said constitution.
SECTION II. To guard against hasty or
partial legislation, and encroachments OF the
Legislative Department upon the coordinate.
Executive and judicial departments, every
bill which shall have passed the House of
Delegates and the Senate, shall before it be-
comes law, be presented to the Governor
of the State; If he approve, he shall sign 1t;
but if not he shall return 1t, with his obJec.
tions, to the House in which it originated,
which house shall enter the objections at
large on its journal, and proceed TO reconsid
er the bill; if after such reconsideration,
three .fifths of the members elected to that
House shall pass the bill, it shall be sent with
the objections to the other House, by which
it shall likewise be recOnsdered, and if pass
ed by three-iiiths of the members elected to
that House, it shall become a law, but in all
such cases the votes of 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, if any bill shall not be
returned by the governor within six days
Sundays exeepted) after it shall have been
presented to him. the same shall be Il law in
like manner ms if he signed it; unless the
General Assembly shall, by adjournment
prevent its return, in which case it shall not
be n law, the Governor shall have power to
dsapprOve 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 disaproved shall
be void unless repassed according to the
rules of limitations prescribed for the passage
of other bills over the executive veto.
SECTION =, Ind be II further eHdcted by
the authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution shall be at the next
general election held in this State, submitted
to the legal and qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of
the directions 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 be
written or printed the words ''lor the consli,
tutional amendment or ''against the con
slitutonal 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 directed by the said four
teeth article of the constitution.
Approved March 9th, 1890
We hereby certify, That the atoregoing is
a correct copy of an act of the General As
sembly of Maryland, passed January session,
1890. w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.