Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-07-15
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OFFIC I A L.
GTATE OF MARYLAND,
- Executive Department
PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland,
Article IA, section l. providing for amend
ments TO the Constitution, it is made the duty
OF the Governor TO order the publication of
any bill proposing amendments as therein d.
rected
And whereas the following act OF the Cen
eral Assembly, passed at the January Session,
1880, chapter AIT, proposes an amendment to
the Constitution, to-wit;
CHAPTER All.
SECTION !. BE IL enacted 6y tie General As
sembty Of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members concurring, that the following sec
ton be and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment 10 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 irst Monday in November
OF such year, an election for judges as herein
provided; and in case of death, resignation,
removal or disqualification, by reason of age
or otherwise, OF 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 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 be elected 10 fill vacancy, an cleo
ton for his successor shall take place at the
next general election for members of the Cen
eral Assembly TO occur upon or after the ex-
piration Of the said term and the Governor
shall appoint person duly qualified to hold
said office from the ey piration of such term of
fifteen years until the election and qualiica-
ion OF his successor.
See. 2. And be il further enacted 6v The an.
hority 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 10 this State, submitted 10 the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
rections contained in article fourteen of the
Constitution of this State and at the said pe n
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, /, WILLIAM T. 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 in two newspapers
to be designated in each county, where so
many may be published, and where not more
than one, in that newspaper, and in three
new spapers 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 and the great seal OF
the State at the city of Annapolis, this 9TH day
oil July, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty -one
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
by the Governor:
JAMES r. BRlSCOE,
July lo-5m Secretary of State.