Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-08-13
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
- Executive Department
PROCLAMATION.
VXTHEREAS, The Constitution Of the
wv State of Maryland, by Article IA.


Section /, directs amendments to the
NConstitution, to be made as follows:
'The General Assembly may propose
amendments TO the Constitution, provided
that each amendment, shall be embraced in a
separate bill, embodying the Article or Sec
| ton, as the same will stand when amended
and passed by three-ff of all the members
elected TO each Of the two Houses, by yeas and
nays, TO be entered on the Journals, with the
| proposed amendment The bill or bills, pro-
| posing amendment or amendments, shall be
| published by the order OF the Governor, in
| at least two newspapers, in each county,
| where so many may be published, and where
mot more than one may be published, then
in that newspaper, and in three newspapers
| published in the City Of Baltimore, one of
| which shall be in the German language, once
| a week, for at least three months, preceding
| the next ensuing general election, at which
| the said proposed amendment shall be SUBJ
mitted, in a form to be prescribed by the
General Assembly, TO the qualified vote of
the State, for adoption or rejection. The
votes cast for or against said proposed amend
ment or amendments, severally, shall be re-
| turned TO the Governor, in the manner pre-
! scibed in other cases, and if it shall appear TO
the Governor that majority of the votes cast
at said election on said amendment or amend
ments, severally, were cast in favor thereof
| the Governor shall, by his proclamation de-
clare the said amendment or amendments,
| having received said majority of votes, 10
have been adopted by the people of Maryland
as part of the Constitution thereof, and /,
| thenceforth, said amendment or amendments
| shall be part of the said Constitution. When
| two or more amendments shall be submitted
| in manner aforesaid, to the voters of this
State, at the same election, they shall be so
! submitted as that each amendment shall be
voted on separately"
And, Whereas, An Act of the General
Assembly, at January Session, 1874,
Chapter 264, was passed, for amending
the Constitution of the State, as follows
"An Act to amend Section 8, of article
4. Of Constitution Of the State Of Nary
land"
''SEcTIoN l. Bs ii enacted 6y the General
assembly Of Maryland, hree-ftths Of all the mem
bers Of the too Houses concurring, That the fol-
lowing section be and the same is hereby
proposed, as an amendment TO the Constitu-
ton of this State, and if adopted by the
legaland qualified voters thereof, as provided,
it may be the same to supercede and stand
in the place of Section 8, Of Article 4, of said
Constitution"
'SEoTIoN 8. The parties TO any cause may
submit the same to the court for determine
ton without the aid of jury, and in all
suits or actions at law, issued from the o.
phans' Court or from any court, sitting in
equity, and all cases of presentments or in
dictments for offences, which or may be
punishable by death, pending in any of the
courts of law, in this State, having jurisdic-
ton thereof, upon suggestion, in writing
under oath, of either of the parties to said
proceedings, that such party cannot have a
fair and impartial trial in the court in which
the same may be pending, the said court shall
order and direct the record of proceedings in
such suit or action issue, Presentment or indict-
ment TO be transmitted to some other court,
having jurisdiction in such case, for trial;
bnt in all other cases of presentment or in
dictment, pending in any of the courts of
law in this State, having jurisdiction thereof
in addition to the suggestion, in writing, OF
other OF the parties to such presentment or
indictment that such party cannot have fair
and impartial trial in the court in which the
same may be pending, it shall be necessary
for the party making such suggestion, to
make it satisfactorily appear TO the court that
such suggestion s true, or that there is rea-
sonable ground for the same and thereupon,
the said court shall order and direct the
record of proceedings, in snch presentment or
Indictment, to be transmitted to some other
court having jurisdiction in such case or trial,
and such right of removal shall exist upop
suggestion in cases when all the Judges of
said court may be disqualified, under the
provisions of this Constitution, to sit in any
such case, and said court, to which the record
of proceedings in such suit or action, issue,
presentment or indictment may be transmit
ted, shall hear and determine the same in
like manner as if such suit or action issue
presentment or Indictment, had been origin
ally instituted therein, and the General AS
sembly shall make such modification of ex-
isting law as may be necessary to regulate
and give force to this provision
"SEcTloN Q. And be ii further enacted by
the authority aforesaid That said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution, shall be, at the next general
election to be held in this State, submitted to
she legal and qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of
the directions contained in Article ID, of the
Constitution of this State, and at the said
general election, the vote on said proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution shall be by bal
lot, and upon each ballot there shall be written
or printed these words, ''For the Constitu-
tional Amendment" or against the Con-
stliutional Amendment" as the vote shall
elect, and Immediately after said election,
due returns shall be made to the Governor of
the vote tor and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by the said 18th Article of
the Constitution"
Now, THEREFORE,, /, JAMES BLACK
GROOME, Governor of the State of
Maryland, in compliance with the re-
quirements of the provisions of the
Constitution, do order and direct the
foregoing proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Maryland,
to be published in two newspapers in
each county, where so many may be
published, and where not more than one
may be published, then in that news
paper, and in three newspapers publish
ed in the City of Baltimore, one of which
shall be in the German language, once a
week, for at least three months. preced-
ing the next general election, to he held
in November next, the said newspapers
to be by me designated.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the State, at the City
e of Annapolis, this 2Sth day
2ESJ of July, in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and
seventy-fve.
JAMES BLACK GROOME.