Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-10-07
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STATE OF MARYLAND,
~ Executive Department
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Whereas by the Constitution Of Mary hand,
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 ny therein di-
rected
And whereas the following act Of the Gen
eral Assembly, passed nj the January Session,
1880, chapter All, proposes an amendment to
the Constitution to-wit
CHAPTER All.
SECTIoN |. Be il enacted By the General As
sen'Jty Of Maryland, Three-fifths 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, 1t shall super
sede and stand in the place and instead of Sec
ton five Of article four Of said Constitution
SEC. s. After the election for judges ms 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 AZ election for judges as herein
provided; and in case of DEATH resignation,
removal or disqualification, by reason of age
or otherwise, any 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 successor shall be elected
whose term OF Office shall be the same rs here
inbeiore provided; and upon the expiration
OF the term OF fifteen years for which any
Judge may be elected to Gil vacancy, an cleo
ton for his successor shall take place ut the
next general election for members of the Gen
era Assembly to occur upon or after the ex-
pirnton of the said term and the Governor
shall appoint person duly qualified to hold
said Office from the eS piration OF such term OF
fifteen years until the election and qunifca-
ton OF his successor.
SIC. Q. And be il FURTHER enacted bU Tie au-
hority 0oresad, That the said foregoing Sec
ton hereby proposed MS IN amendment to the
Constitution shall be- nj 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 di-
rections contained in article fourteen of the
Constitution of this State and atthe said gem
eral election the vote on said proposed amend
ment 10 the Constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words, "For the constitutional
amendment or Against the constitutional
amendment, ms the voter shall elect, and i'm
mediately after snid election due return shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, rs directed
by the said fourteenth article OF the Const-
tuition.
Approved April 10, 1880
Now, therefore, |, WILLIAM T. IIAMII,-
TON, Governor Of the State of Mary land, do
hereby order that the said Act of Assembly
proposing AN amendment TO the Constitution
rs aforesaid be published in two newspapers
10 he 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 Baltimore,
one OF which shall be in the German Ian
guage, once week for nj least three months
preceding the general election to be held on
the 9Th day Of November next
Given under my baud and the great seal of
the Stale at the city at Annapolis, this 9Th day
OF july! in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred aud cighiy-one
WILLIAM f. HAMILTON.
By the Governor
JAMES BRISCOE,
july l5-3m Secretary of State.