Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-07-29
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
= EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland
article A. section |, providing for amendments
to the Constitution, it is made the duty of the
Governor to order the publication ofany bill
proposing amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the General
Assembly, passed at the January session, 1880,
chapter, Az proposes an amendment to the
Constitution, towit:
CHAPTER4l7
AN ACT to amend section five of article folr
of the Constitution of this State.
SEcToN BE ii enactedby Tie General Assem-
blu Of MrylaRd Three tifths of all the menu
hers of the two Houses concurrng, that the fol-
lowing section be and the same is hereby pro-
posed MS an amendment TO the constitution OF
this State, and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof AS herein provided it
shall supcrseie and stand in the place and
instead of section five of article four of said con-
StitutiOn.
SEC. ). After the election for judges as here
inhefore proyid 4 there shall be held in this
State in VERY fifteenth wear thereafter. on the
Tue sdav after the first Monday in November of
such year. an election tor judges as herein
provided aud in ease of death, resignation,
removal or disqualification, by reason ofage or
otherw ise, OF any judge, the Governor shall
flee, who shall hold the same until the next
general election for members of the General
Assembly, when successor shall be elected
whose term of office shall be the same as here
ntefure provided; and upon tho expiration
of the term of fifteen years for which anv judge
may he elected TO ill vacancy, an election for
his success shall take place at the next general
election for members OF the General Assembly
to occur npon or after the expiration OF the
said term; and the Governor shall appoint a
person duly qualified to hold said office from
the expiration of such term of fifteen years
until the election and qualification of his success
sor.
SEC ? Ind Be further enacted By the
dufhorify tore,asd, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment 10
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 direc-
tions contained in article fourteen OF the con-
sttuton of this State and at the said genera!
election the vote on said proposed amendment
to the constitution shall be by ballot, and upon
each ballot here shall be written or printed
the words for the constitutional amendment
or against the constitutional amendment
as the voters shall elect, and immediately after
said election due return shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for aud against said pro.
posed amendment, as directed by the said four
teen article of the constitution.
Approved April 10. 1880.
Now therefore !, WILLIAM 7. HAMILTON
Governor Of the State OF Maryland, do hereby
order that the said act Of Assembly proposing
an AIMED meat TO the Constitution rs aforesaid
be published in two newspapers TO be designat-
81 in each county where 50 many may he pub
lished. and W here not more than one. in that
newspaper aud in three newspapers 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 general election 10
be held on the s,h day Of November next.
/ Given under my hand and the great seal ot
( the State at the city of Annapolis, this eth day
Of July. in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred sad eighty-oae.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON
( By the Governor:
JAS. T. BRlSCoE, See ' OF State.
/ iys, 3m.