The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
~ EXECUTIVE EPA RTMENT.
PROCLAMATION.


Whereas by the Constitution of Maryland.
article "A, section !, providing Tor amendments
10 the Constitution. it is made the duty OF the
Governor TO order the publication oil any Dill
PROPOSING amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the Gem
eral Assembly, passed at the January session,
1880 chapter Az, proposes an amendment 10
she Constitution, to-wit:
CHAPTER AT.
SECTION L. Be IL enacted by The Ge1ser,d As
sep,blu of Maryland. Three-ffths of all the
members of the two Houses concurring, that
the following section be and the same 10 mere
by proposed. as an amendment to the consul
tuition of this State and II adopted BY tne
provided 10 shall supersede ana stana IN the
place andinsteaG of section five ofarticle four
of said constitution.
SEC s. After the election for Judges as here
inbefore provided there shall be held in tbs
State. In every fifteenth year thereafter, on
the Tuesday alter the first Monday in NoVem-
Der OF such year, an election ioT Judges as
herein provided; and in case Of death, resig-
nation, removal or disqualiRcst1on, by reason
of age or otherwise, of anv Judge the Cover
nor shall appoint person duly quallneu 70
fill said office who shall hold the same until
the next general election for members of the
General Assembly, when a successor shall be
elected, whose term Of office shall be the same
as hereinbe1ore provided; and upon the e1 *
piration OF the term of fifteen years for which
any Judge may be elected TO NIL 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 said term and the Cover
nor shall appoint a person duly qualified e
hold said office nom the expiration OF such
term of fifteen years until the election and
qualification of his successor.
SEC. 2 A7ad be Jst5ther enacted bVthe ossthor-
Ay aforesaid, That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the con"
stitution, shall be, at the next general cleo
ton to be held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters tkeEeCf fer their
adoption or rejection, IN pursuance Of the
direstions contained IN article fourteen Of the
constitution of this State; and 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 the words ''for the constitutional
amendment" or against the constitutional
amendment" as the voter shall elect, and i'm i.
mediately after said election due return shall
be made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as direct
ed by the said fourteenth article ofthe consti-
tuition.
Approved Aprlilo, $780,
Now, therefore; T, WTLETAM T. HAMIL-
TON, Governor of the State OF Maryland, de-
hereby order that the said act of Assembly
proposing an amendment to the Constitution
as as al aforesaid be pablishea in two newspapers
to be designated in each county, where so
many may BE publ ished, and where not more
than one, in that newspaper and three news
papers published in the city Of Baltimore, on g
of which shall be in German language, once
a week for at least three moths preceding the
general election to be held on the Sth day OF
November next.
Given under my hand and thegreat seal of
the State at the city of Annapolis, this 7th
day ofJuIy, in the year of our Lord one thous-
and eight hundred and eighty-one..
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
By the Governor:
JAS. r.. BRISC0E,
Jy 49, 3m Sce'y of State.