Democratic messenger., 1881-11-05
CTATE OF NJ RYLAND
- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland,
article Ia, section !. providing for amend
ments to the Constitution, il is made the
duty of the Governor to order the publica-
iion OF any bill proposing amendments as
therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the Gen.
eral Assembly. passed AZ the January ses-
sion, $780, chapter All, proposes a. amend
ment TO the Constitution, to wit:
CHAPTER AIT.
AN ACT to amend section Eve of article four
OF the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l.. BE IL enacted Ly tie General
Assembly Of MGTylond three-ffths 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 .titution of this State, and if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof as
herein provided, il shall superseda and stand
in the place and instead OF section Eve of
article four of said constitution.
Sec 5. After the election for Judges as
herein -befure provided, there shall be 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 or disqualification, By
reason OF age or otherwise. of any Judge, the
Governor shall appoint person duly quali-
fed TO fll said Office, who shall hold the
same until the next general election for
members o the General Assembly, when a
successor shall be elected whose term of
Office shall be the came as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and upon the expiration OF the term
OF fifteen ears for which any Judge may he
elected 10 fill vacancy, an election for his
successor shall tIke place ai the next general
election for members OF the General Assembly
10 occur upon or after the expiration of the
sid term, and the Governor shall appoint q
person culy qualified TO hold said Office from
the expiraii n of such term of fifteen years
until the election and qualification Of his
| successor.
Sec. . And be IL further enacted by tie du-
thOriiy aforesaid, That the said foregoing Sec
zion hereby proposed as an amendment TO the
constitution shall be- at the next general FL.
rcuion TO be held in this State, submitted 10
The legal and quslifed voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance Of
the directions contained in article fourteen of
| The constitution of this State, a 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 shall be
written or printed the words ''for the :con-
| stitu,ic NIL amenimeut," or lag .inst the
rors;iiuli nal amendment as the voter
Sii"H etecti anu llnineulhtely AItsr Stlu Ell &C.
ton due return shall he IN ,de to the Cover
nor OF the vote for aud against ID proposed
| amendment. as directed by the said four
leenih article O: the constitution.
Approved April 10. 1880.
Now. therefore. ]. WILLIAM T. HAM,
lLTON, Governor OF Tie State of Maryland,
do hereby order that the said act of ssem-
bly, proposing AN amendment TO the ,consii-
| tuition as aforesaid be published in two
newspapers to be designsied in each county,
where so many may be Published, and where
not moIe than one, in that newsp lper. and
in three newspapers published in the city ot
! Baltimore, one oi which shall be in the Ger
man language, once week lOr ut least three
months preceding the general election TO be
held on he sih d,y If November next.
Given under my band aud the great seal
of the S'atr at the C i,y OF Annapolis, this
7'h day OF July. in The year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eigty-onc.
WILLIAM 7. HAMILTON.
By the Governor:
JAS. 7. BRISCoE, Sec'y of State.