Montgomery County sentinel., 1881-09-16
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STATE OF MARYLAND,
~ Executive Department
PROCLAMATION.


Whereas by the Constitution OF Maryland,
Article ID section l., providing for amend
ments to the Constitution, ii is made the duty
OF the Governor to order the publication of
any bill proposing amendments as therein d-
rected
And whereas the following act of the Cen
eral Assembly, passed at the January Session,
1880, chapter All, proposes m amendment TO
the Constitution, to-wit;
CHAPTER All
SECTION |. BE IL enacted By the General As
senbly Of Maryland, Three-6fths of all the
members concurring, that the following sec
tion be and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment TO the Constitution OF this State,
and If adopted by the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof, as herein provided it shall super
sede eand stand in tho place and instead OF sec
tion five of article four of said Constitution
SEC. 8. After the election for judges as here
inbefore provided, there shall be held in this
Stale in every fifteenth year thereafter, on the
Tuesday after the 6rst Monday in November
OF such year, an election for judges as herein
provided; and in case of death, resignation,
removal or dsqual fcation, by reason Of age
or otherwise, ofany judge, the Governor shall
appoint person duly qualified to fill said
office, who shall hold the same until the next
Assembly, when successor shall be elected,
whose term of Office shall be the same as here
inbetore provided and upon the expiration
OF the term OF fifteen years tor which any
Judge may be elected to fill II vacancy, an cleo
tion for his successor shall take place at the
next general election for members of the Gem
eral Assembly TO occur upon or after the ex-
piration Of the said term and the Governor
shall appoint person duly qualified to hold
said Office from the expiration OF such term of
fifteen years until the election and uuali6cA-
tion of his successor
SEE 2. and be il further cnacted bg tie du-
h0riy 1oresdid, That the said foregoing sec-
tion hereby proposed MS IN amendment to the
Constitution shall be, nj the next general elec-
tion to hc 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 at the said gen
eral election the vote on said proposed amend
ment 10 the Constitution shall he by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words, ''For the constitutional
amendment or against the constitutional
amendment, as the voter shall elect and inn
mediately 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 fourteenth article of the Consii-
tuition.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now, therefore, |, WILLIAM T. HAMlI-
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
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 he in the German Ian
guage once II week for at least three months
preceding the general election to he held on
the Sth day of November next
Given under my hand aud the great sea- of
the State at the city OF Annapolis, this 9TH day
of July, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eiRhty-one.
WILLIAM r. HAMILTON.
BY the Governor
JAMES r. BRISCOE
july l5-3m Secretary of State