The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-20
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
GTATE OF MARYLAND.
~ EXECUTIVE DEPA RTMENT.
PROCLANAT7 ON.

Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland
article "A, section |, providing commandments
to the Constitution, it il made the duty OF the
Governor TO order the publication of any bill
proposing amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the Cen
eral Assembly passed at the January session,
1880. chapter 4lT, proposes an amendment 10
the Constitution, to-wit:
CHAPTER All.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted By the Gene,nl As
sen1bLy of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members of the two Houses concurring, 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 shalt supersede and stand in the
place and instead of section five ofarticle four
of said constitution.
SEC. 5. After the election for judges as here
tnbefore provided. there shall be held in this
state, in every fifteenth year thereafter, on
the Tuesday alter the first Monday in Novem-
Der OF such year, an election for judges as
herein provided; and in case of death, resig-
nation, removal or disqualification, by reason
of age or otherwise, of anv Judge the Cover
nor shall appoint person duly qualified to
I'LL 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 herein before provided; and upon the ex-
piration of the term of fifteen years forwhich
any judge may be elected to fill vacancy, an
election for his 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 Cover
nor shall appoint person duly qualified to
hold said office froua the expiration OF such
term of fifteen years untH the election and
qualification of his successor.
SEC 2. And belt further enacted 6uthe author
itU aforesaid, That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the con-
stitution, Shall be, at the next general cleo
ton to he held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
directions 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 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 direct
ed by the said fourteenth article Ofthe consti-
tuition.
Approved April 10, 1880
Now therefore I, WILLIAM r. HAMIL-
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
10 be designated in each county, where 50
many may be published and where not more
than one, in that newspaper and three news
papers published in the city ofBaltfmore, one
of which shall be in German language, once
u week lOF al ledSb bDIee AlOlnS preceding lNe
general election to be held on the Sth day OF
November next.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
she State at the city of Annapolis, this 7th
day ofJuy, in the year Of ocer LoIIi one tfIous-
and eight handreqs and eighty-one.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
BY the Governor
LAS. r. BRTSCOE,
Jy l6, 3m Sce'y of State.