...this Commonwealth by the adoption of the subjoined article of amendment ; and that the said article, being agreed to by a majority of the Senators and...House of Representatives present and voting thereon, be entered on the journals of both Houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the...

...this Commonwealth by the adoption of the subjoined article of amendment ; and that the said article, being agreed to by a majority of the Senators and...House of Representatives present and voting thereon, be entered on the journals of both Houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the...

...and if, in the general court next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of the senators and two-thirds...house of representatives present and voting thereon, then it shall be the duty of the general court to submit such proposed amend-ment or amendments to...

...and if, in the general court next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of the senators and two-thirds...house of representatives present and voting thereon, then it shall be the duty of the general court to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the...

...and if, in the general court next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of the senators and two-thirds of the members of the house of representatives presept and voting thereon, then it shall be the duty of the general court to submit...

...provided, however, that the right of secret voting shall be preserved. The proposed amendment was duly agreed to by a majority of the senators and two-thirds of the members of the House of Eepresentatives present and voting thereon during the legislative session of 1909, and was referred...

...amendment or amendments to the constitution be proposed in the general court, and agreed to by a marjority of the senators and two-thirds of the members of the...house of representatives present and voting thereon, .such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on the journals of the two houses, with the...

...President. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March 28, 1879. The foregoing Article of Amendment is agreed to, twothirds of the members of the House of Representatives present and voting thereon having voted in the affirmative, and the same is referred in concurrence to the general court next...

...concurrence, and the articles of amendment had been agreed to, in con' currence, with the following amendments (two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives, present and voting thereon, having voted in the affirmative) : In the first article of amendment, by striking out, in line 10,...

...volume of Laws of that year, — was duly transmitted to the General Court of 1866, but failed to ba agreed to by a majority of the Senators and two-thirds of the House of Representatives present and voting thereon, and therefore became of no force or effect. INAUGURAL...