The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
STATE Of MARYLAND,
~ EXECUTIVE DEPA RTMENT
pR0CLAMAT ION.


Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland.
article IA, section /, providing foramendments
DO the Constitution 1t is made the duty of the
Governor to order the publication of any bi!
proposing amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the Cen
eral Assembly, passed at the January session,
1880, chapter All, proposes an amendment 10
the Constitution, to-wit:
CHAPTER Az.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted 6y the General As
sen1b{y of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members of the two Houses epneUrring, that
the following section be and the same is here
ny proposed as AN amendment TO the consti-
tuition of this State, and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof az herein
provided, it shall supersede and stand in the
place andinsteaG OF section hve ofartlcle TOUR
of said constitution.
SEC. o. After the election for judges as here
inbefore provided. there shall be held in this
State, in every fifteenth year thereafter, on
the Tuesday alter the nrst N onday IN a.. Novem-
Der OF such year, an election for judges as
herein proyided;i and in case OF death, res1g-
nation removal or disqualification, by reason
of age or otherwise, of am judge the Cover
nor shall appoint person duly quaihed TO
fl; 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 hereinbefore provided; and upon the ex-
piration of the term of fifteen years tor which
any Judge may be elected to fill g vacancy, an
election for his successor shall take place at
the next general election for meInbers of the
General Assembly to occur upon or after the
expiration of the said term aa& she Go'rer-
nor 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 successor.
SEC.2 Aasd 6eiS et,71ser enacted ~ the out2Dr
tn aforesaid, That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the con-
stitution, shall be, at the next. general cleo
ton to be held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof foS their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
directions contained in article fourteen of the
constitution or this State {; ana 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 the words 'for the constitutional
amendment" or against the constitutional
amendment" as the voter shall elect, and i'm
mediately after said election dNe return shall
BE made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment as direct
ed by the said fourteenth article ofthe consti-
tuition.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now. therefore, !, WILLIAM r. HAMII,-
TON, Governor OF the State of Maryland do
hereby order that the said act OF Assembly
proposing an amendment TO toe Constitution
as aforesaid be publ is1ed in TWO n sWspaoers
TO be designated in each county, where 50
many may De published, and where not more
than one, IN that newspaper and three news
papers published in the city of Baltimore, on e
of which shall be in German language once
week for at least three moths preceding 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 OF Annapolis this 7th
day ofJuly, in the year of our Lord one thous-
and eight hundred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON. l
BY the Governor:
JAS r. BRIsCOE,
ty l6, 3m See'y Of State.