Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-10-21
ROCKVILLE MORNING. OCTOBER 81 1881.
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STATE OF MARYLAND,
~ W Executive Department.
PROCLAIM NATION.


Whereas blythe Constitution ot Maryla
Article H. sectiou |, providing for amend
mcnts to the Constitution, il is made the duty
of the Governor to order the publication of
any hill proposing amendments as therein di-
rec,ed
And whereas the following act OF the Cen
cral Assembly, passed at the January Session,
1880, chapter All, proposes an amendment to
the Constitution, to-wit:
~ NN CHAPTER All ~ NW 81
SECTION l. Be IL enacted by the General As
Se0'bty Of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members concurring that the following Sec
ton be and the same 10 hereby proposed AS an
amendment TO the Constitution of this State,
and if adopted by the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof as herein provided, it shall super
sede and stand in the place and instead OF Sec
ton five of article four Of said Constellation
SEC. 8. After the election for judges o = Iere-
inbefore provided, there shall be held ! a ibis
State, in every fifteenth year thereafter, OF he
Tuesday after the first Monday in November
of such year, az election for judges Gs herein
provided aud in case Of death, resignation,
removal or disqualification, 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 us here
inbefore provided and upon the expiration
OF the term OF fifteen years tor which any
judge may be elected to Gil n vacancy, nm cleo
ton for bis successor shall take place at the
next general election for members ofhlfe GEN
eral Assembly to occur upon or after toe cx-
piration Of the said term and the Governor
shall appoint person duly qualified to hold
aid LII. g.. IL. a
fifteen years until the election aud quali6ca-
ton Of his successor
SIC. 2. And be IL further enacted by The au-
Mority aforesaid That the said foregoing Sec
ton hereby proposed MS an amendment TO thr
Constitution shall be, nj the ucXt 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 di-
rections contained in article fourteen Of the
Constitution Of this State and ut the said gem
eral election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the O'n'tiuior shall he 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.
mediately after snid election dne return shat be
made to the Governor of the vote FOR and
against said proposed amendments as directed
tuition.
Approved April 10, 1880.
Now, therefore, !, WILLIAM r lIAMlIi-
TON, Governor OF the State of Maryland, do
hereby order that the said Act OF Assembly
proposing an amendment to the Constitution
MS aforesaid be published in two newspapers
TO be designated in each county, where so
many may be published, aud 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 an-
gunge, once week for nj least three months
preceding the general election to be held on
the 9Th day of November next
Given under my hand and The great sea- OF
the State at the city OF Annapolis this 7th day
of July, in the yenr of our Lord one tbonsand
eight hundred aud eighiy-one
WILLIAM Y. HAMILTON
BY the Governor:
JAMES BRlSCOE,
july lj-3m Secretary Of State