Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-10-14
O r FL CT A L.
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
~ Executive Department.
PROCL


Whereas by the Constitution Of MARYLAND,
Article II, section /, providing for amend
ments TO the Constitution, it is made the duty
of the Governor to order the publication of
any hill proposing amendments rs therein di-
rec,ed.
And whereas the following act OF the Cen
eral Assembly, passed at the January Session,
1880, chapter AIT, proposes an amendment TO
the Constitution, to-wit;
CHAPTER AT.
SECTION l. Be IL enacted by The General As
semJly Of Maryland, Three-ff,hs of all the
members concurring, that the following Sec
ton be and the same is hereby proposed Ms an
amendment TO the Constitution OF this State,
and If adopted by the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof, ms herein provided, il shall super
sede and stand in tho place and instead OF Sec
ton five of article four of said Constitution
SEC. 8. After the election for judges as here
inbetore 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 Gil said
office, who shall hold the same until the next
general election for members of the General
Assembly, when n successor shall be elected
whose term OF Office shall be the same as here
inbeore provided and upon the expiration
of the term Of fifteen years Tor which any
judge may be elected to fill a vacancy, IN cleo
ton for his successor shall take place at the
next general election for members of the Cen
eral Assembly 10 occur up0n or after the ex-
pration of the said term: and the Governor
shall appoint IL person duly qualified TO hold
fifteen years until the election and quaifca-
ton OF his successor
Size. 2. And be il further enacted By tie au-
horiy doresaid, That the said foregoing Sec
ton hereby proposed as nm amendment to tho
Constitution shall he. nj the next general cleo
ton to hc 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 gem
eral election The vote on said proposed amend
meut to the Constitution shall he by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall he written or
printed 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
agains, said proposed amendment, as directed
tuition
Approved April 10, 1880
Now, therefore, |, WILLIAM T HAMIL-
TON, Governor of the State of Maryland, do
hereby order that the said Act of Assembly
proposing mn amendment to the Constitution
as aforesaid be published in two newspapers
to he designated in each county, where so
many may be published, aud where not more
than one, in that newspaper, and in three
newspapers published in the city of Baltimore,
one OF which shall be in the German Ian
Ruage, once week for AT least three months
preceding the general election 10 he held on
the 9Th day of November uext
Given under my hand aud the great sea- Of
the State at the city ot Annapolis. this 9TH day
of July, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred aud eghty-oue
WILLIAM 4, HAMILTON
By the Governor
JAMES T BRISCOE,
july l5-3m Secretary of State.