Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-08-26
O FL CIAL.
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
~ Executive Department.
PROCLAMATION.


Whereas by the Constitution OF Maryland,
Article IA, section |, providing for amend
menis 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 Gen.
eral Assembly, passed at the January Session,
1880, chapter All, proposes IN amendment TO
the Constitution to-wit;
CHAPTER All.
SECTION |. BE il enacted By the General As
semJly u Mdrytdnd, Three-if,hs of all the
members concurrng, that the following Sec
ton be and the same is hereby proposed rs an
amendment TO the Constitution OF this State,
and II adopted by the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof, as herein provided, II shall super
sede and stand In tho place and instead OF See
ton live Of article four OF said Constitution
SEC. 8, After the election for Judges as here
inbeiore provided, there shall he held in this
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, 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 rs here
inbeiore provided and upon the expiration
OF the term OF fifteen years tor which any
Judge may be elected TO fill II vacancy, an cleo
ton for his successor shall take place nj the
next general election for members OF the Cen
eral Assembly to occur upon or after the ex-
pirati0n 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 qualiica-
ton OF his successor.
SEc. ., And be IL FURTHER enacted by he an
hority aforesaid, That the said foregoing sec
lion hereby proposed AZ nm amendment 10 the
Constitution shall be, ut the next general cleo
ton TO be held In this State, submitted TO the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF the d.
rections contained In article fourteen Of the
Constitution OF this State and at the said gen
eral election the vote on said proposed amend
mcni 10 the Constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words, "For the constitutional
amendment or against the constitutional
amendment, rs the voter shall elect, and i'm
msdiatcly after said election due return shall be
made 10 the Governor Of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, rs directed
by the said fourteenth article of the Ccnsti-
tuition
Approved April 10, 1880
Now. therefore, !, WILLIAM r. HAMIL-
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 mny 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 Ian
guage, once "A week for AT least three months
preceding the general election 10 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 7th day
Of July, In the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eigbty-one
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
BY the Governor:
JAMES T. BRlSC0E,
july l5-3m Secretary of State.