Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-09-09
OF CIAL
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
- Executive Department.
PROCLAMATION.


Whereas by the Constitution OF Maryland,
Article IA, section !, providing for amend
ments to the Constitution, it Is made the duty
of the Governor to order the publication Of
any bill proposing amendments as therein di.
rected.
And whereas the following ACT OF the Gem
eral Assembly, passed at the January Session,
1880, chapter All, proposes an amendment TO
the Constitution, to-wit;
CHAPTER All.
SECTION l. BE IL enacted by the General As
sen'Jiy Of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members concurring, that the following sec
ton be and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment TO the Constitution OF this State,
and it adopted by the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof MS herein provided, it shall super
sede and stand in the place and instead OF sec
ton five OF article four OF said Constitution
SEC. g. After the election for judges as here
inbetore provided, there shall be held in this
State, in every fifteenth year thereafter, on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November
OF such year, an election Tor judges as herein
provided; and in case of death, resignation,
removal or disqualification, by reason of age
or otherwise, any Judge, the Governor shall
appoint person duly qualified to I'll 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 he the same rs here
inbciore provided and upon the expiration
of the term OF fifteen years for which any
Judge may be elected TO fill II vacancy, an cleo
ton for his successor shall tuke place at the
next general election for members OF the Gen
oral Assembly TO occur upon or after the ex-
piralion Of the said term aud the Governor
hall lat. III. L \ 4
said Office from the cypiraton of such term of
fifteen years until the election and qualifca-
ton OF his successor.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted by Tie au-
Mority aforesaid, That the said foregoing Sec
ton hereby proposed MS m amendment TO the
Constitution shall he. nj the next general cleo
ton to l'c 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 al the said gon-
eral election the vote on said proposed amend
ment TO the Constitution shall bp by ballot
and upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words, "For the constitutional
amendment or Against the constitutional
amendment, NJ the voter shall elect, and i'm
mediniely after saii election due return shall he
made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, rs directed
by the said fourteenth article Of the Consli-
tuition.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now, therefore, |, WILLIAM +. IlAMlL-
TON, Governor Of the State OF Maryland do
hereby order that the said Act of Assembly
proposing an amendment to the Consiitn lion
as aforesni6 he published in two newspapers
to he designated in each county where so
many may he 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 week for At least three months
preceding the general election to he held on
the 9Th day Of November next
Given under my hand and the great seal Of
the Stale ut the city Of Annapolis, this 7th day
of July, in the yenr Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM 7. HAMILTON.
BY the Governor;
JAMES T BRISC0E,
july l5-3m Secretary OF State.