Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-10-15
ATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
sPlsoCLANIA'kION.

As.
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
amendment shall be embraced in p separate bill,
embodying the Article or Section, rs the same
Will stand when amended and passed by three
tifths of all the members elected to each OF the
two Houses, by yeas and nays, 10 be entered on
the Journals, with the proposed amendment
Ihe Dill or bills, proposing gamcndment or amend
mentS, shall be published by order of the Gov
ernor, IN at least two newspapers i'll each coun-
! ty, where many may be published, and where
not more than one NAV be published then il,
| that newspaper, and in thee newspapers pub
liShed in the City OF Baltimore one OF which
snail be in the German language, once week
for at least three months, preceding the next
ensuing general election, at which the said pro-
posed amendment shall bessubmitted, i'll Il form
10 be prescribed by the General Assembly, to the
quallhed voters of the state, for adoption or
lection. The votes cast for or against said pro-
posed amendment amendments, Severllly,
shall be returned to the Governor in the man.
ner prescribed in other eases, and if il shall APP
pear to the Governor that Il majority of the
votes cast at said election said amendment or
amendments, SeVerally, We're east in favor there
OF, the Governor shall, by his proclamation, de-
clare the said amendment or amendments, h;tv-
ing received said majority Of votes 10 have been
adopted by the people of Maryland, rs part OF
the Constitution thereof, and, thenceforth, said
amendment or amendments shall be part of the
said Constitution When two or more amend
ments shall be submitted, in manner aforesaid,
to the voters OF this State ut the same election,
they shall be so submitted. as 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 Constit J.
tion Of the State, as follows:
In let 10 amend Sccicn 5. af -f7ic7e !, qf The
Constitution OF the STATE Of 1tc,ry7GRd.'
SECTION l. BE ii enacted 6g the General ISxen,-
fJS far
Fhe ttCo HonSes coacasiyGy That the followingNe
tion be and the same is hereby proposed. rs an
and If adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof, rs provided. it may be the same To
Supercede and stand in the place Of Section 3 of
Article l. of said Constitution"
SECTION 5. The parties to any cause may sub
NIT the same to the court for determination
without the aid of iurV, and in all suits or ae-
tions at law, issues from the Orphans Court. or
from any court, sitting in equity and all cases of
presentments or indictments fer offences which
are or may be punishable ny death, pending in
any OF the courts OF law, ii tGiS STATE having
jurisdiction thereof, upon svi2st tStiuIl. in writing
under oath, OF either of thu l=9rtieS to said pro-
ceedlngS, that such party cannot have fair and
impartial trial in the cour, in which the same
may be pending. the said coart 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 juriSsiic-
ton 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. having juriSiic-
ton thereof, in addition 10 the suggestion. in
Ol tltttE DI parties 10 SllcIi lrt>tt-
ment or indictment, that such party cannot have
fair and impartial trial IN the court in which
the same may be pending. il shall hc necessary
for the party making such suggestion, To make
1t satisfactorily appear To the court that such
suggestion is true, or that there is reasonable
s11p sba iIF drS 5ns and th The s d
ceedingS, in such prcSentment or Indictment, To
be transmitted TO some other court having iuriS-
dlcton In such cases for trial. and such right OF
removal shall exist upon suggestion, in eases
when all the judges of said court may be disuuali-
fed under the provisions of this Constitution. to
sit i'll any such case, and said court, to which the
record of proceedings in such suit or action issue
preSentment or indictment may be transmitted.
shall hear and determine the same in like man
ner, as if such suit or action. issue pre>cntment
or indictment, had been originally instituted
therein. and the General Assembly shall make
such modification OF existing law aS may be
cesssry to regulate and give force to this provl-
sion.''
SECTION .. And be il further enacted by the a,s-
GoTIty aforesaid, That Sldforegoing section here
by proposed as an amendment 70 the COuSIitu-
tion. shall be, at the next general election To s,
held in this State, submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection. in pursuance of the directions contained
in Article II, OF the Constitution Of this state
and at the said general election the Vov.. on said
proposed amendment 10 the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed these words. For the Consti-
tutionai Amendment, or Against the COn>ti-
tutional Amendment. as the voter shall elect
and Immediately after said election, due returns
shall be made 70 the Governor ot the vote Tor and
the said 18th Article OF the Constitution"
New, THEREFORE,, !. 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, ana
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
a week for at least three months, preceding
the next general election, TO be held in Noyem-
Der next, the said newspapers to be BY me de-
signated.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the State, at the City Of
- Annapolis, this 2sih day Of July,
SEAL in the year Of our Lord eighteen
w hundred and seventy-irc.
JAMES BLACK GR0ONE.
By order of the Governor,
K. @. HoLLYDAY.
au 6-3m Secretary of State.