Democratic messenger., 1881-09-24
CTATE OF NJ ,RYLAND.
- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAMATION.
whereas hy the Constitution Of MARYLAND.
eriicle II. section l. providing for amend.
meniS TO the Constitution. il is made the
duty OF the Governor TO order the pmblica-
ton of any hill proposing amendments as
iherein directed
And whereas the following act OF the Gem
eral Assembly, passed AT the January ses-
sion. 1880. chapter 4l7 proposes a. amend
ment TO the Constitution, TO wit:
CHAPTER AZ.
AN ACT to amend section ive of article four
OF tie Constitution of ths State
SEcTIov l. BE Il cnccfed In ne CrncraI
4; sanity If NcTyl0Hd ihrec-fftls of all The
mcmterS Of the two Houses concurring. Tha.
the following section be. and the same is
h erehy proposed as an amendment To the
con stiulicn of this State, aud if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof rs
herein provided, it shall supersede and stand
in the place and instead of section FIVE of
article four of said constitution.
Sec After the election for judges rs
heiein- before provided, there shall be held in
tins State, in erery fifteenth year thereafter,
on the Tuesday af er the first Monday in
November OF such year. an election tor judges
as herein provided, ana in case of death,
resignation, removal or disqualification, be
reason OF age or otherwise. of any Judge, the
Governor shall appoint person duly quail
fed TO Ell said office who shall mold the
same until the next general election for
members OF the General Assembly, when
successor shall he elected. whose term of
Office shall be the same as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and upon the expiration of the term
OF fifteen years for which any judge may be
elected 10 fill vacancy. an election for his
successor shall take place az the next general
election for members OF the General Assembly
TO occur upon or after the expiration of the
said term, and the Governor shall appoint II
person culv qualified to hold said Office from
the expiration of such term of fifteen years
until the election and qualification OF his
successor.
Sec. 2 44nd be Il further enacted Jy the au-
HOrity aforesaid, That the said foregoing Sec
tiOn hereby proposed as an amendment to the
constitution shall be, at the next general ell
eclon to be held in this State, submitted to
the legal ard qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of
the directions contained in article fourteen of
the constitution of this State, nd al the said
general election the vote Aon said proposed
amendment 10 the constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words ''for the CON
stitutcnal amendmeni'' or against the
constitutional amendment as the voter
shall elect and Immediately after said cleo
ton due return shall be made to the Cover
nor OF the vote for and against s lid proposed
amendment, as directed by the said four
teenih article Os the constitution.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now, therefore, /. WILLIAM T. HAM,
lLTON, Governor of the State of Maryland,
do hereby order that the said act of ssem-
bly, proposing an amendment to the !consti-
tuition as aforesaid be published in two
newspapers to be 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 Ger
man language, once week for at least three
months preceding the general election to be
held on the sIh day of November next.
Given under my hand and the great seal
of the State at the ity of Annapolis, this
9TH day of July, in the year of our Lord
ne thousand eight hundred and eigty-one.
WILLIAM I. HAMILTON.
BY the Governor:
JAS. T. BRISCOE, Sec'y of State.