The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-16

Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland,
article IA, section !, providing toramcndments
to the constitution it Is made the duty of the
Governor To order thc publication of any bill
proposing amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the Cen
eral Assembly, passed at the January session,
1850, chapter III, proposes an amendment to
the Constitution, to-wit:
CHAPTER III.
SECTION /. BE il enacted by the Genc,m As
sen3biy of Mdiyln1ld, Three fifthS of all the
members of the two Houses concurrng, 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 superSede and stand in the
place and instead OF section five ofarticle four
of said constitution.
SEC j. After the election for judges as here
inbefore provided. there shall be held in this
State. in every fifteenth year thereafter on
the Tuesday after the first Mondayin NoVem-
Der OF such year, an election for judges as
herein provided; and in case OF death, resig
nation, renewal or DISC ratification, by reason
of age or otherwise, of anr j Il lge the Cover
nor shall appoint Il person duly qualified to
fill said Office, who shall hold the same until
the next general election for members of the
General Assembly, when successor shall be
elected. whose term of office shall be the same
as hereinbefOre provided and upon the ex-
piration of the term Of fifteen years for which
any judge may be elected to fiji a 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 a person duly qualified TO
hold said Office from the expiration of such
term of fifteen years until the election and
qualification of his successor
SEC. 2 Ind be it, Further enacted ytie author
Hy aforesaid, That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the con-
sttution, 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 :
medlately 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 of the consti-
tuition.
Approved April 10. 1880
Now therefore. I, WILLIAM I. 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
many may be published, and where not more
than one. in that newspaper and three news
papers published in the city of Baltimore, one
of which shall be in German language, once
week for at least three moths 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 18th
day ofJuly, in the year of our Lord one thous-
and eight hundred and eighty-one
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
By the Governor:
JAS. T. BRISCOE,
jy l6, 3m Sce'y of State.