The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-10-08
ELECTION NOTICE.
TO Judges of Election and Voters of Iiar.
ford County.

n accordance with the requirements of the
i Code of Public General Laws, / hereby
give notice to the Judges of Election and to
the Voters of Hartford county that al Elec-
ton will be held on
Monday, ID Of November, 1876,
at the usual places of voting in the several
election districts of Hartford county, us fol-
lows:
In the 1st Election District at Abingdon.
In the I'd Election District at Halls Cross
Roads.
In the Sd Election District at Bel Air.
In the 4th Election District at Jarretts-
vile.
In the 9TH Election District at Dublin.
In the 9th Election District at Havrc dc
Grace.
And the Election to be held is for the pun
pose Of electing gentlemen to fill the follow
Ing offices, viz:
One person to be Governor of the State Of
Maryland;
One person to be Attorney General of the
State of Maryland;
One person to be Comptroller of tho Trca.
sury OF the State of Maryland;
One person to be States Attorney of Har-
ford county.
One person to be Sheriff of Hartford coun.
ty;,,
Three persons to be Judges of the Orphans
Court Of Hartford county;
Three persons to represent Hartford Coun.
ty in the House of Delegates of Maryland;
Five persons to be County Commission.
ers of Hartford county;
And one person to be County Surveyor for
Hartford county.
Voters will also cast their ballots "For the
Constitutional Amendment" or against the
Constitutional Amendment" in accordance
with the following Act ofthe General Assem-
bly,, passed at January Session, 1874, for
amending the Constitution of the State:
"An Act to amend Section s, of Article 4, of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland"
"SEcTIoN l. Be it enacted Gy the General
Asse,ndy Of ,Ma'yIand, three JJAs Of all tho
members of the t,cO Houses c0ncu77ifag, That
the following section be and the same is here
by proposed, as an amendment to the Con-
stitution of this State, and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof, as provi-
ded, it may be the same to supersede and
stand in the place of Section 8, of Article 4,
of said Constitution"
SECTION 8. The parties to any cause may
submit the same to the court for determine
ton without the aid of n jury, and in all suits
or actions at law, issued from the Orphans
Court, or from any court, sitting in equity,
and all cases of presentments or indictments
for offences, which are or may be punishable
by death, pending in any of the courts of law
in this State, having jurisdiction 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. prcsentment or indictment TO be
transmitted to some other court, having juris-
diction in such case, for trial; but in all other
cases of presentment or Indictment, pending
in any of the courts of law in this State, have
ing jurisdiction thereof, in addition to TIL
suggestion, in writing, ofeither ofthe parties
to such presentment or indictment, that such
party cannot have a 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 ap
pear to the court that such suggestion is true,
or that there is reasonable ground for the
same; and thereupon, the said court shall
order and direct the record of proceeding, in
such presentment or indictment, to be trans
mittcd to some other court having jurisdic-
ton in such cases for trial, and such right of
removal shall exist upon suggestion, in cases
when all the judges of said court may be dis
qualified, under the provisions of this Consti-
tuition, to sit in any such case, and said court,
to which the record of proceedings in such
suit or action, issue, pIesentment OF lndict-
ment may be transmitted, shall hear and de-
termine the same in like manner, as if such
suit or action, issue, presentment or indict-
no1l nd thas
and the General Assembly shall make such
modification of existing law rs may be neces.
sary to regulate and give force to this provi-
sion"
"SECTIoN 2. and be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment 10
the Constitution, shall be, at the next general
election TO be 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 IA, ofthe Con.
stitution Of this State, and at the said gener-
al election, the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written
or printed these words, For the Constitu-
tional Amendment or against the Consti-
tutional Amendment" as the voter shall elect,
and Immediately after said election, due re-
turns shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by the said 14th Article OF
the Constitution"
Ca3"The polls will be opened at 0 o'clock
A. NJ. and closed at o'clock p. NJ.
Us" The Returning Judges are required
and directed to make their return on the sec
ond day Thursday following the election. to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Hartford
county, and also to the Governor of Mary
land.
VIM. B. JARRETT,
oct1 Sheriff of Hartford County.