The Baltimore County union., 1881-10-29
Miscellaneous.
CTATE OF MARYLAND,
- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION.

wHEREas by the Constitution Of Maryland, ar
tieie u. section !. providing for amendments 10
the Constitution, il is made the duty Of the Gov.
ernor to order the publication Of any bill pro-
posing amendments as therein directed.
And whereas the following act Of the General
Assembly, passed at the January session, 1850,
chapter AZ, proposes an amendment TO the Con.
stitution, TO wit:
CHAPTER az.
AN ACT to amend section Eve Of article four Of
the Constitution ofthls State.
sEcrIoS !. BE Il enacted BY the General Asssn,-
by cf MaryiaHd, Three-afths Of all the members
Of the two Houses coneurring, that the following
section be and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment 10 the constitution Of this state, aud
II adopted by the legal and qualified voters thereof
as herein provided, Il shalt supersede aud stand
In the place and instead Of section i've Of article
four Of said constitution.
SECTION 5. After the election for judges NJ here.
inbefore 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 for judges as herein provided; and in
case Of death, resignation, removal or disqualii-
cation, by of age otherwise. Of any
the Governor shall appoint person duly quail
fed 10 I'LL said Office, who shall hold the same
until the next general election for members Of the
General Assembly, when q successor shall be
elected, whose term Of Office shall be the same as
hereinbcfore provided; and upon the expiration
may he elected 20 Gil . vacancy, an election for
his 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 Governor shall appoint a person
duly qualified 10 hold said Office from the expira-
tion of such term Of fifteen years until the elc,.
tion and qualification Of his successor.
SEcrioS 2. Asd Be IL (nrfLsr enacted BY hs as-
hority aforesaid. That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed ~ an amendment 10 the consti-
tuition shall be, ut the next general election 10 DO
held In this State, submitted 10 the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption OF re-
lection, In pursuance Of the directions contained
In article fourteen Of the this State
and at the said general election the vote on said
proposed amendment 10 the constitution shall be
by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written printed the words "ior the constitution
al amendment" or against the constitutional
amendment" rs the voter shall elect, and imme-
diately AFTER said election due return shall be
made to the Governor Of the vote for aud against
said proposed amendment, as directed by the said
fourteenth article Of the constitution.
Approved April 10. 1850.
Now. therefore. I. WILLIAM 7. HAMtI..
TON. Governor OF the State Of Mary land, do here.
by order that the said nc, Of Assembly proposing
an amendment to the Constitution as 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 q.
Baltimore. one of which shall be in the German
language, once n week for at least three months
preceding the general election to be held on the
sth day Of November next.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the
State a, the city Of Annapolis, the 9Th day oi
July. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and cighty-one.
WILLIAM r. HAMILTON.
by the Govcrnor:
JAMES T. BRIscoE. sec'y Of State.
July t6.-te.