Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-08-05
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AN ACT 10 umeud section hvc of article four
of he constitution of this State.
SrcrioY ! BE il eHdctcd iy he General As-
/ semblH n .Mryllnd Three ffths of all the
mcmuers of the two Houses concurrino. that
/ the teliowiug ctich be and the same is here
| by pro posed as an arncndmen, to tho constitu-
! ton OF this state, and if adopted by the legal
and qualified voters thereof As herein provided.
it shall supcrsedc and stand in the place and
instead Of section five of article four of said
constitution
SEC. ) After the election for Judges =
herein before provided, there shall he held in
this State in every fifteenth year thereafter.
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Nov
cmber OF such year, an election for judges as
| herein provided; and in case Of death, resig-
nation, removal or disqualification, bv reason
of age or otherwise, of any Judge, the Cover
nor shall appoint Il person duly qualified to
| ill said office, who shall hold the same un il
the next general election for members of tho
General Assembly, " hen successor shall bo
elected, whose term Of Office shall ba the same
as hcreinheiore provided and upon the ,pi-
ration Of the term OF fifteen years for which
any Judge may be elected to fill vacancy,
mn election for his successor shall take p'ace
at the next general election for members OF
the General Assembly to occur upon or after
the expiration of the said term; and the Gov
ernor shall appoint person duly qualified II
hold said office from the expiration Of .nch
term Of fifteen years until the election and
qualification OF his successor.
SEC. 2. And Be It further enacted BY the du-
hoyuy qJoresaid, That the said foregoing Sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to the
constitution shall be, at the next general { &C.
tioG to be held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof fer their
lr,t -
rect ons contained in article fourteen Of tbs
constitution Of this Stale; aud at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the constitution shall be by
ballot and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words ''tor the cC nsti-
tutionl amendment" or against the const-
tutional amendment" KS the voter shall elect,
and Immediately after said eet ton due return
shall Ire made to the Governor Of the vote for
and against said proposed amendment, as di-
rected by the said fourteen article OF the COM
stitution
Approved April 10, 1880.
| Now, therefore, !, WILLIAM T. HAMIL-
| TON, Governor Of the State Of Maryland, do
hereby order that the said act of Assembly
proposing an amendment 10 the COnstitu ion
as aforesaid be published in two neMsIap rs
to be designated in each county where so ma
ny may be published, and where not mor'
than one, in that newspaper and ~, m thr ,ss
| newspapers pm shed in the city of Ball. one
of which shall be in the German language,
once "a week for at least three months preced-
ing the general election to be held on the Sth
day of November next.
Given under my hand and the -
great seal of the State at the city off SEAL
Annapolis, this 9TH day of July, in NV
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hum
bred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
By the Governor:
JAMES I. BRISC0E, Sec'y OF State.
july I5-3m