Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-10-01
GTATE OF MARYLAND,
- Executive Department
PROCLAMATION.

w State of Maryland, by Article 1.
Section /, directs amendments to the
Constitution, to be made as follows:
t'The General Assembly may propose
amendments TO the Constitution, provided
that each amendment shall be embraced in
separate bill, emhodyiug the Article or Sec
ton, as the same will stand when amended
and passed by three-ffths of all the members
elected 10 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
not 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
week, for at least three months, preceding
the next ensuing general election, at which
ihe said proposed amendment shall be sub
mitted in form to be prescribed by the
General Assembly, 10 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 10 the Governor, in the manner pre-
scibed in other cases, and if il shall appear 10
the Governor that majority of the votes cast
at said election Oh said amendment or amend
.nents, severally, were cast in favor thereof,
Nue 0OVeTuOI SHitliJ ny us uC-
clare the said amendment or amendments,
having received said majority of votes, TO
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 tie State Of Mary
land"
'SEcrIoN /. Be IL enacted By the General
assembly Of Morytdmd, hree.ffhs ofaHA mem
Jers Of tie t,co Houses concnrring, That the fol-
lowing section be and the is hereby
proposed, as an amendment to the Conslitu-
ton of this State, and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof as provided
ii may be the same to supercede and stand
in the place of Section s, of Article a, of said
Constitution"
"SEcrIoN 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 Or
phans' Court or from any court, sitting in
equity, and all cases of presentments or in
dictmens for offences, which are 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 ia which
the same may be pending, the said conrt shall
order and direct the record of proceedings in
such suit or action issue. Eresentmtnt or iudici-
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
either of the parties 10 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 il satisfactorily appear TO the court that
such suggestion is 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 preseutment or
indictment, to betransmitted TO some other
court having jurisdiction in such case or trial,
and such right of removal shall exist upon
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
semblv shall make such modification of ex-
listing law may be necessary to regulate
and give force to this provision"
'iSEcT1oS 2. Ind be il 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
the legal and qualified voters thereof, for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of
the directions contained in Article Ia. of the
Constitution OF this State, and at the said
general election, the vote on said proposed
amendment TO the Constitutions ha II be by bal
lot and upon each ballot there shall be written
or printed these words, "For the Constitu-
tionaI Amendment" against the Con-
stitutional 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 l4th 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
week, for at least three months. preced-
ing the next general election. to be 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
of Annapolis, this 28th day
NENH of July. in the year of our
- Lord eighteen hundred and
seventy-fve.