Democratic messenger., 1881-09-17
GTATE OF M tRYLAND
~ EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION.
2l5 b 2l7 Walnut Street, Philalla., P.


Whereas by the Constitution of MARYLAND.
article IA. section l. providing for amend.
ments to the Constitution. il is made the
duty Of the Governor to order the publica-
tion OF any bill proposing amendments as
therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the Gen.
eral Assembly. passed At the January ses-
sion. 1880. chapter All. proposes az amend.
ment to the Constitution, to wit:
CHAPTER All.
AN ACT to amend section i've of article four
Of the Constitution of this State
SECTION /. Be Il e,octed Ly tie GenfroI
ASSEMBLY, Of MCrylond three iiiihs of all the
members OF the two Houses concurring. That
the following section be, and the same is
ereby, proposed as an amendment TO the
con stiiution of this State, ard il adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof as
herein provided, it shall supersede and stand
in the place and instead of section FIVE of
article foaE of said constitution.
Sec 5 After the election for Judges as
herein before provided. there shall he held in
tins 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 OF disqualification, bs
reason OF age or otherwise, ofany Judge, the
Governor shall appoint person duly quail
fed 10 Gil said Office, who shall hold the
same until the next general election for
members oil the General Assembly, when
successor shall be 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 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
Sid term. and the Governor shall appoint n
person culY qualified to hold said Office from
the expiration of such term Of fifteen years
until the election and qualification oil bis
successor.
Sec. Ind be IL. fuSGiey enacted 5y tie on-
hority aforesaid, That the said foregoing Sec
tion hereby proposed as an amendment to the
constitution shall be, at the next general ell
eciiOn 70 be held in this State, submitted to
the legal and qusliied voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of
the directions contained in article fourteen OF
the constitution Of this State, I'd at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there hall be
written or printed the words ''for the ..con-
stituticnal amendment" or ''against the
constitutional amendment Rs 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 siid proposed
amendment, as directed by the said four
teenth article OF the constitution.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now, therefore, /. WILLIAM r. HAM,
ILTON, Governor of the State of Maryland,
do hereby order that the said act Of Assem-
bly, proposing an amendment to the lconsti-
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 p1hlished in the city OF
Baltimore, one Of which shall be in the Ger
man language, once q week tOr nc least three
months preceding the general election to be
held on the 9Th day of November next
Given under my hand and the great seal
Of the State at the C ity OF Annapolis, this
Sth day OF July, in the year of our Lord
ne thousand eight hundred and eigty-one.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
By the Governor:
JAS. r. BRiSCoE, Sss'y oe State,