Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-10-21
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

NOTICE is hereby given to the Judges OF
IN Election and to the Voters of Montgom-
cry county, that an Election will be held in
the several Election Districts Of Montgomery
county, at The usual places of holding Flee
tons, on
TUESDAY, the 9Th of November, 1881,
for the purpose of eectng one person for
Comptroller of the Treasury of the Sta te of
Maryland.
One person for Chief Judge Of the Sixth
Judicial Circuit Of the State of Maryland.
| One person to be State Senator from Mont
gomery county for the General Assembly of
Maryland
Three persons for Members of the House of
Delegates from Montgomery county for the
General Assembly of Maryland. r.
Five persons for County Commissioners of
Montgomery county.
One person for Sheriff of Montgomery
county.
One person for County Surveyor of Mont
gomery county
And the qualified voters will also express
upon their ballots 'FOr the Constitutional
Amendment" or Against the Constitu-
tonal Amendment" as each voter shall elect,
lie accordance with the provisions contained
in article IA Of the Constitution Of this State,
as follows: E.4 II
CHAPTER AIT.
SECTION /. Be ii enacted 6y The General As
Senbly Of Maryland, Three-fftlis 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 ii 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. 5. 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, an election for judges as herein
provided; and in case of death, resignation,
removal or disqualification, by reason of age
or otherwise, ofany 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
inbeiore provided: and upon the expiration
OF the term OF fifteen years for which any
Judge may be elected to fill a 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 expiration of such term of
fifteen years until the election and qualifca-
ton of his successor
SEC. 2. And be ii further enacted bv the au-
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 in this State, submitted 10 the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
rectons contained in article fourteen of the
Constitutio of this State and at the said ge a.
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
msdiately 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.
The polls for said Election will be opened
in each and every Election Di-trct of said
county, at the usual places of holding the
polls, ut O'Clock, A. NJ, and will be closed
at O'Clock, P. NJ, when the ballots shall be
publicly counted.
The polls in the Ninth Election District will
be held at Gaithersburg. The polls in the
Tenth Election District will be held at Ofutt,s
X Roads.
JOHN H. KELCHNER.
Sheriff Of Montgomery county.
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