The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-12
STATE OF MARYLAND,
= EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION.


Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland arti-
Gle H. section |, providing for amendments to the
Constitution, it is made the duty of the Governor
to order the publication of any bill proposing
amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the General
Assembly, passed at the January session, 1880,
chapter Az, proposes an amendment to the Con-
CHAPTER AZ.
AN ACT to amend section five of article four of
the Constitution of this State
SECTION l. Be II enacted By tie General assembly
Of NaBidHd, Three-tifths of all the members of
the two Houses concurring, that the following
section be and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment TO the constitution of this State, and
if adopted by the legal and qualified voters there
of as herein provided, 1t shall supersede and stand
in the place and instead of section five of article
four of said constitution.
SEC. 5. After the election for judges as herein
before provided, there shall be held in this State
in every fifteenth year thereafter, on the Tues
day after the first Monday in November of such
year, an election for judges as herein provided ;
and in case of death, resignation, removal or dis
qualification, 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 until the next general election for members
of the General Assembly, when a successor shall
be elected whose term of office shall be the same
as hereinbetore provided; and upon the eXpira-
ton of the term of fifteen years for which any
judge may be elected to fill vacancy, an election
for his successor shall take place at the next gen.
eral election for members of the General Assem-
bly, to occur upon or after the expiration of the
said term and the Governor shall appoint a per-
piration of such term of fifteen years until the
election and qualification of his successor.
SEC. 2. IND BE- HtUriher eHacte9 0y 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 i'm
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 pro-
posed amendment to the constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be writ
ten or printed the words 'for the constitutional
amendment" or against the constitutional
amendment, as the voter shall elect, and imme-
diately after said election due return shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by the said
fourteen the article of the constitution.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now therefore, I, WILLIAM t. HAMILTON,
Governor of the State of Maryland do hereby or
der that the said act of Assembly proposing an
amendment 70 the Constitution as aforesaid be
published in two newspapers to be designated in
each county, where 80 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
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 18th day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-one. -
WILLIAM L. HAMILTON.
jy2s JAS. II. BRIsCoE, secy of State,