Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-07-22
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STATE OF MARYLAND,
~ Executive Department.

PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by the Constitution Of Maryland,
Article Ia, section l, providing for amend
ments to the Constitution, 1t is made the duty
OF the Governor to order the publication of
any bill proposing amendments as therein di-
rected
And whereas the following act OF the Gen.
eral Assembly, passed at the January Session,
1880, chapter All, proposes an amendment to
the Constitution, to-wit
CHAPTER AIT.
SECTION /. BE ii enacted By the General As
senJly Of Maryland, Three-ffths of all the
members concurring, 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 vot-
ers thereof, as herein provided, it shall super
sede and stand in the place and instead OF Sec
ton five of article four Of said Constitution
SEC. 8. After the election for judges as here
inbefore provided, there shall be held in this
State, in every fifteenth year thereafter on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November
OF such year, au election for judges as herein
provided and in case of death, resignation,
removal or disqualification, by reason of age
or otherwise, any judge, the Governor shall
appoint person duly qualified to fill said
Office, who shall hold the same until the next
general election for members of the General
Assembly, when a successor shall be elected,
whose term of office shall be the same as here
inbefore provided: and upon the expiration
OF the term of fifteen years for which any
Judge may beeleeted to fill vacancy, an cleo
ton for his SUCCESSOR shall take place at the
next general election for members of the Gem
eral Assembly to occur upon or after the ex-
plraton OF the said term; and the Governor
shall appoint person duly qualified to hold
said Office from the expiration of such term OF
fifteen years until the election and quaifica-
ton OF his successor
SEC. 2. And be il further enaeted 6y the an
MOrity aforesaid, That the said foregoing Sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution shall be, at the next general cleo
ton to be held in this State submitted 10 the
legal and qualified voters thereof for thei r
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
rections contained in article fourteen of the
Constitution of this State; and at the said gen.
eral election the vote on said proposed amend
ment TO the Constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words, "For the constitutional
amendment or against the constitutional
amendment as the voter shall elect, and i'm
mediately after said election due return shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as directed
by the said fourteenth article of the Consti-
tuition.
Approved April 10, 1880. -
Now, therefore, l. WILLIAM I. HAMII-
| TON, Governor OF the State of Maryland, do
hereby order that the said Act Of Assembly
proposing an amendment to the Constitution
as aforesaid be published n two newspapers
to be- designated in each county, where SC
many may be published, and where not more
than one, in that newspaper, and in three
newspapers published in the city of Baltimore,
one OF which shall be in the German Ian.
guage, once week for at least three months
preceding the general election to be held on
the 9Th day of November next.
Given under my hand aud the great seal o.
the State at the city Of Annapolis, this 9TH DAY
of July, in the year of our Lord one thousan nd
eight hundred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
BY the Governors
JAMES T. BRISC0E,
July l5-3m Secretary of State.