The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-10-22

N accordance with the requirements of the
L Code OF Public General Laws, | hereby
| give notice to the Judges of Election and 10
the Voters of Hartford county that an 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, as fol-
lows:
In the LIST Election District at Abingdon.
In the I'd Election District at Halls Gross
Roads.
In the 3D. Election District at Bel Air.
In the 4th Election District at Jarretts.
In the 9th Election District at Dublin.
In the 9th Election District at Havre dc
Grace.
And the Election to be held is for the pul-
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 the Trea-
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:
IAN Act to amend Section 8, Of Article 4, of
the Constitution Of the State of Maryland"
SECTION 1. BE it enacted By tile General
assembly Of Maryland, three ffths of alt tie
members Of the tac0 Houses cOncu77ing, 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 s. 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 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, i'll writing, under OATH of
either of the parties to said proceedings that
such party cannot have Il 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 indictment to be
transmitted to some other court, having juris-
dction in such case, for trial; but in all other
cases of prcsentmcnt or indictment, pending
in any of the courts law in this State, have
ing jurisdiction thereof in addition to TIL
suggestion, in writing, of either ofthe 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 APP
pear to the court that such suggestion is true,
or that there is reasonable ground for the
same; and thcreupon, 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, plesentment or indct-
ment may be transmitted, shall hear and de-
termne the same in like manner, as if such
suit or action, issue, presentmcnt or indict-
ment, had been originally instituted therein,
and the General Assembly shall make such
modification of existing law as may be neces-
sary to regulate and give force to this provi-
sion"
SECTION .. And be ii further enacted 6y
tie 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, otthe Con-
stituton of this State, and at the said gener-
al election, the vote on said proposed amend
mcnt 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-
tutonal Amendment" rs 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 14lh Article of
the Constitution"
C4y~Thc polls will be opened at 0 o'clock
A. M. and closed at 6 o'clock p. NJ
CB1Thc 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.
WM B. JARRETT,
ocl1 Sheriff of Hartford County.