The Democratic advocate., 1881-08-27
GTATE OF MARYLAND,
= Executive Department
PROCLAMATTOM.

Whereas Nv the Constitution Of Maryland,
article IA, section !, providing Tor amend
ments to the Constitution, 1t IS made the duIy
of the Governor to order the publication OF
any bill proposing amendments as therein di-
rected.
And whereas the following act of the Gen
eral Assembly, passed at the January session,
1880, chapter All, proposes an amendment
to the Constitution, to-wlt:
CHAPTER All.
AN ACT to amend section five Of article four
of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted 6y the General
Assem6lv of Maryland, Three-fiths OF all the
members Of the two Houses coucurrlng, that
the following section be and the same IS here
bv nroposed as an amendment to the Constr
t1tion of this State. and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof as herein
nroyided, il shall supercede aud 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 m
this State, in every fifteenth year thereafter,
on the Tuesday after the irst Monday IN NO
yember of such year, an election Tor Judges
as herein provided and IN case OF death, res
ignation, removal or disquallhcauon, Dy
reason of age or otherwise, of any judges the
to 6Il said Office, who shall hold the same un-
til the next general election for members OF
the General Assembly, when successor shall
be elected, whose term of Office shG1l be the
same as hereinbefere provided and upon the
expiration of the term of fifteen years Tor
which any Judge may be elected to NIL a va
caney, an election for his successor shall take
place at the next general election for mem
hers of the General Assembly TO occur upon
or after the expiration of the said term and
the Governor shall appoint a person duly
ouali6ed to hold said office from the expira-
ton of such term of fifteen years until the
election and qualification Of his successor.
SEc. 2. And be IL 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 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 "for the constr
tutional amendment, or against the eousti'
1 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, l, WILLIAM I. HAMIi..
| TON, Governor Of the State OF Maryland, DC
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 SC
many may be published, and where not more
/ than one, in that newspaper, and IN three
/ newspapers published in the city Of Baih'
| more, one Of which shall be in the German
| language, oace q week for al 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 q
the State al the city of Annapolis, this Ith
dav Of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
By the Governor:
JAS. 7, BRIScOE,
July l6-sm Secretary Of State.