§46.  Reading of bills.  That a bill in order to become a law shall, except as herein provided, pass three readings in each house, on separate days, the final passage of which in each house shall be by a majority vote of all the members to which such house is entitled, taken by ayes and noes and entered upon its journal.

  A revision may be enacted by a separate short act without itself being read:  17 H. 567.  Referred to in 15 H. 298, 366; 16 H. 245; 20 H. 600.