Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-08-20
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
y EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMA

WHEREAS, The Constitution of the State of
Maryland by Article IA, Section /, directs a
mendments to the Constitution, to be made as
follows:
THE General Assembly may propose amend
ments to the Constitution provided that each
embodying the Article or Section. as the same
will stand when amended and passed by three
fifths 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, proposing amendment or amend
ernor, in at least two newspapers, in each coun-
ty, where so many may be published, and where
not more than one may be published, then in
lished in the City of Baltimore one of which
shall be in the German language, once week,
for at least three emo months preceding the next
posed amendment shall be submitted, in a form
to be prescribed by the General Assembly, to the
lection. The votes cast for or against said pro-
posed amendment or amendments, Severally,
shall be returned to the Governor. in the man
ner prescribed in other cases and if it shall APP
pear to the Governor that majority of the
votes cast at said election on said amendment or
amendments, severally, were cast in favor there
of, the Governor shall, by his proclamation. de-
clare the said amendment or amendments, hav--
adopted by the people of Maryland, as part of
the Constitution thereof, and, thencefOrth, said
said Constitution. When two more amend
ments shall be submitted, in manner aforesaid,
to the voters of this State, at the same election,
they shall be SO submitted, that each amend
ment shall be voted on separately
AND, WHEREAS, An Act of the General As
sembly, at January Session, 1874, Chapter
264, was passed. for amending the Consttl-
ton OF the State, as follows:
An act to amend Section s, of article 4, of the
Constitution Of the State Of 1ndryldnd.'
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the General ASSEM-
bly, Of Maryland, nree-ftths Of all the members Of
the t'co Honses concri,g, That the following sec
ton be and the same is hereby proposed, as an
amendment to the Constitution of this State
and if adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof. as provided, 1t may be the same to
snpereede and stand in the place of Section g. Of
Article 1, OF said Constitution"
SECTION s. The parties to any cause may sub
init the same to the court for determination
without the aid of a jury, and in all suits
tons at law, issues from the Orphans Court, or
from any court sitting in equity, and all OF
presentments or indictments for Offences which
are or may be punishable by death, pending in
Jurisdiction thereof upon suggestion in writing
under oath, of either of the parties to said pro-
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 indictment to be
transmitted to some other court, having jurisdic-
ton i'll such case for trial; but in all other cases
Of presentment or Indictment, pending in any Of
ton thereof, in addition to the suggestion, in
writing, of either of the parties to such present
a fair and impartial trial in the court in which
the same may be pending, 1t shall be necessary
it satisfactorily appear 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 pro-
ceedings, in such presentment or Indictment, to
be transmitted to some other court having juris-
diction 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 disqual-
fled, under the provisions of this Constitution, to
record of proceedings in such suit action issue,
presentment or Indictment may be transmitted,
ner, If such suit or action, issue, presentment
or indictment, had been originally instituted
therein. and the General Assembly shall make
such modification of existing law as may be ne
cessary to regulate and give force to this provi-
sion."
SECTION 2 And be IL further enacted By the a,i-
by proposed as an amendment to the Constitu-
tion shall be, at the next general election to be
qualifed voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection, in pursuance of the directions contained
in Article IA, of the Constitution of this State,
proposed amendment to the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
5ea OF PRINTED these words Por the Const
tutional Amendment" as the voter shall elect,
and Immediately after said election, due returns
against said proposed amendment, as directed by
the said 18th Article of the Constitution"
Now, THEREFORE, I, JAMES BLACK
GROOME, Governor of the State of Mary
land, in compliance with the requirements of
the provisions OF the Constitution, do order
and direct the foregoing proposed amendment
to tie 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 newspaper. and in three newspa-
pers published in the City of Baltimore, one Of
which shall be in the German language once
week, for at least three mouths, preceding
the next general election, to be held in Novem-
Der next, the said newspapers to he by me de-
signated.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the State, at the City Of
- Annapolis, this 28th day Of July,
SEAL in the year of our Lord eighteen
Wv hundred and seventy-fve,
JAMES BLACK GRO0ME.
By order of the Governor,