The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-07-16
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
- Executive Department.
PROCL1M1TION.

Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland,
article IA, section l, providing for amend
ments TO the Constitution, it is made the duty
of the Governor TO order the publication of
any bill proposing amendments as therein dl-
rected.
And whereas the following act of the Gen
eral Assembly, passed at the January session,
1880, chapter Ali, proposes an amendment
to the Constitution, to wit: :.
CHAPTER All.
AN ACT to amend section five Of article four
of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
assembly Of Maryland, Three-fiths 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 shall supercede and stand in the
place and instead of section five of article four
of said Constitution.
SEC 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 herein 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 I'M
til the next general election fer members OF
the General Assembly, when a successor shall
be elected, whose term of Office shall be the
same as hereinbefere provided 4; and upon the
expiration of the term of fifteen years for
which any judge may be elected to fill va
cancy, au election for his successor shall take
place at the next general election for men,
bers of the General Assembly to occur upon
s,~ ftar tha Of ba coid and
the Governor shall appoint a 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. ,. And be 1t further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall be, at the next general
election to be held in this State, submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
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 ''for the consti-
tutional amendment" or against the eonsti-
tutional 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 ar
ticle of the Constitution.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM T. 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
to be designated in each county, where so
many may be published, and where not more
than one, in that newspaper, and in three
newspapers published in the city of Balt
more, one OF which shall be in the German
language, once week for at least three
months 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 of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM I. HAMILTON.
BY the Governor:
JAS. T. BRISC0E,
july i6-3m Secretary Of State.