The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-10-21
STATE OF MARYLAND,
y EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION

PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland arti-
Gle IA, section !, providing for amendments 70 the
Constitution, ii 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-
''' W CHAPTER 417
AN ACT to amend section five of article four of
the Constitution of this State.
SECTION |. BE IL enacted 6y tie General ASSeDibly
Of Maryland, Three-fifths 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 rs 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 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 a 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 per-
duly qualified to hold said Office from the ex-
piration of such term of fifteen years until the
election and qualification of his successor
SEC. 2. And be HJayfh6r enacted IN Tie autltOrttD
aforesaid, That the said foregoing section hereby
proposed as an amendment to the constitution
shall be, at the next general election to be held in
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 mme-
dately 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.
Governor of the State of Maryland, do hereby Or
der 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 be in the German
language once week for at 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 city of Annapolis this 18th day of July,
in the year OF our Lord one thousand eight hum
dred and eighty-one. .
WILLIAM II. HAMILTON.
jy2@ JAS. It. BRIsCoE, sec'y of State.