The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-11-05
ELECTION NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given to the Judges of
IN Election and the Qualified Voters of
Carroll county, that an election will be held
in the several Election Districts of Carroll
county, at the usual places of holding Elec-
tions, on
The First Tuesday merit after the First Non
day of November, 1881,
it being the 9Th day of said month, in the sew
eral Districts and Precincts of said county,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTIYG
One person to be Comptroller of the Treas
ury Department of the State of Maryland.
ALSO FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING -
Four persons to represent Carroll county
in the House of Delegates of the State of
Maryland.
One person to be Sheriff of Carroll county.
Three persons to be County Commission
ers of Carroll county.
One person to be Treasurer of Carroll
county aud Clerk to the County Commission
ers.
One person to be County Surveyor of Car
roll county.
The Polls for said Election will be opened
at 0 o'clock, A. NJ, and close at o'clock,
P. NJ, when the ballots shall be publicly
counted.
Voters will also cast their ballots "For
the Constitutional Amendment or against
the Constitutional Amendment in accord
ance with the following Act of the General
Assembly, passed at January Session, 1880,
for amending the Constitution of the State
CHAPTER AIT.
AN ACT to amend section FIVE of article four
of the Constitution of this State.
SEcTIeN /. Be it enacted By the General
Assembly of Maryland, Three-ffths Of all the
members of the two Houses coneurring, that
the following section be and the same is here
by proposed as an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of this State, and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof as herein
provided, it shall sapercede and stand in the
place and instead of section FIVE of article four
of said Constitution.
SIC, 5. After the election for judges as
hereinbefore provided, there shall be held in
this State, in every fifteenth year thereafter,
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember of such year, an election for judges
as hereiA provided; and IN case of death, res
ignation, 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 un-
til the next general election for members of
the General Assembly, when asuccessor shall
be elected, whose term of Office shall be the
same as hereinbefore provided and upon the
expiration Of the term of fifteen years for
which any judge may be elected to fill va
cancy, an election for his successor shall take
place at the next general election for mem
bers of the General Assembly to occur upon
or after the expiration of the said term and
the Governor shall appoint person duly
qualified to hold said Office from the expira-
ton of such term of fifteen years until the
election and qualification of his successor.
SEC. 2. ARd be 1t further enacted be- the
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendmentto
the Constitution shall be, at the next general
election to be held in this State, submittedto
the legal and qualified voters thereoffor their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the d.
rections contained In article fourteen of the
Constitution 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 or printed the words 'fcr the consti-
tutional amendment or s'against the consti-
tutioual amendment, as the voter shall elect,
and Immediately after said election due re-
turn shall be made to the Governor Of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by the said fourteenth aIti-
Gle Of the Constitution.
Approved April 10, 1880.
GEORGE N. FRINGER,
Sheriff of Carroll county.