The Baltimore County union., 1881-11-05
Miscellaneous.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Constitution of Maryland, ar-
ticlc II, section !, providing for amendments To-
the Constitution, IL IL made the duty Of the Gov.
ernor TO order the publication Of any bill pre-
posing amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following net Of the General
Assembly, passed at the January session. ISsO.
chapter All, proposes an amendment 20 the Con.
situation. To Wit:
CHAPTER az.
AN ACT to amend section Eve Of article four of
| the Constitution of this State.
SECTION !. he Il eaarisd Jy tie General Isss.-
Liy af MaryiaBd. Three iifths Of all the members
/ Ot the two Houses concurring, that the following
section be and the same IL hereby proposed a. an
| amendment TO the constitution Of this State, and
IL adopted by the legal and qualified voters thereof
as herein provided. Il shall supersede and stand
in the place and instead Of section i've of article
| four Of said constitution.
SEcrioS ). After the election for judges NJ 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.
an election for judges a. herein provided and In
ease Of death, resignation, removal or disquali6-
cation. by reason Of age or otherwise Of any judge
the Governor shall appoint person duly quail
| fed 10 GIL said Office, who shall hold the same
until the next general election for members Of the
General Assembly, when u successor shall Le
elected, whose term of Office shall be the same
hereinbe.ore provided and upon the expiration
Of the term of hftesn years for which any judge
may be elected 10 Gil n vacancy. an election for
bis successor shall take place at the next general
election for members of the General Assembly To
occur upon or after the expiration Of the said
term; and the Governor shall appoint q person
duly qualified to hold said Office FROM the expirA-
tion Of such term Of fifteen years until the ele,
tion and qualification % his successor.
SECTION 2. And be iJsrfler ssaefsd Jy hs aa.
fhority aforesaid, Tha; the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment 20 the consti
tuition shall be- at the next general election to be
| held In this State, submitted Ia the legal aud
qualified voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection. in pursuance of the directions contained
in article fourteen ot the Of this State
and 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 printed the words 'for the constitution
al amendment or against the constitutional
amendment" as the voter shall elect, and imme-
diately after said election due return shall be
made 10 the Governor Of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by the said
fourteenth article of the constitution.
Approved April 10. 1850.
Now. therefore. I. WILLIAM T. HAMIL-
TON. Govcrnor of the State Of Mary land, do here
| by order that the said act Of Assembly proposing
an amendment to the Constitution as aforesaid
| be published in two newspapers 60 be designated
| In each county, where 50 many may be published.
and where not more than one, In that newspaper
| and in three newspapers published in the city u.
| Baltimore. one Of which shall be in the German
language, once q week for at least three months
preceding the general election TO he held on the
| sth day Of November next.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the
State at the city Of Annapolis. the 9Th day of
July, In the year % our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
By the Governor:
JAMES T. BRIsc0E. sec'y Of State.
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