The Baltimore County union., 1881-10-15
Miscellaneous.
CTATE OF MARYLAND.
- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION.

WnEREAs by the Constitution of Maryland, ar.
tele u, section !. providing for amendments TO
the cOnstitutiOn, IL 10 made the duty Of the Gov.
srnor to order the publication Of any bill pro
posing amendments rs therein directed.
And whereas the following act of the General
Assembly, passed at the January session. isso,
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 o! this State.
SECTION !. Be IL enacted Ly tie Ges.rai issem-
biy oJ MaTgiaad Three. .hiths of all the members
OF the two Houses concurring. that the following
section be and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment TO the constitution of this State. and
if adopted by the legal and qualified voters thereof
as herein provided, Il shall superscde and stand
In the place and instead of section Eve Of article
four OF said constitution.
SECTION 5. After the election for Judges as 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 disqualih-
cation, by reason Of age or otherwise, any Judge
the Governor shall appoint person duly quail
fed TO hll said Office, who shall hold the came
until the next general election for members of the
General Assembly, when n successor shall be
elected whose term of Office shall be the same as
hereinbefore provided and upon the expiration
Of the term Of hftcen years for which any Judge
may be elected TO fili n vacancy, nm election for
his successor shall take place at the next general
election for members of the General Assembly TO
occur upon CT after the expiration of the said
term and the Governor shall appoint n person
duly qualified TO hold said Office from the expira-
tion Of such term of fifteen years until the elcc
tion and qualification of his successor.
SECTION 2. And Je iJIriLer enacted Jy ILe an-
horiiy aforesdid, That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amen ndmcnt 20 the consti.
tuition shall be. ut the next general election be
held In this State, submitted To- the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption or re.
lection, In pursuance of the directions contained
In article fourteen Of the constitution ofthis Sate
aud 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 printed the words 'ioT the stitution-
sl amendment" or against the constitutional
amendment" as tbs voter shaii elect, and Itame-
diately AFTER said election due return shall be
made TO the Governor Of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by the said
fourteenth article Of the constitution.
Approved April 10. 1850.
Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM T. HAMIL.-
TON, Governor Of the State of Mary land. do here.
by order that the said act of Assembly proposing
m amendment to the Constitution Us aforesaid
be published in two newspapers 20 be designated
In each county, where 50 many may be published,
and where not more than one. in that Newspaper
and In three newspapers published in the city o.
Baltimore, one Of which shall be in the German
language, once n week for ut 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 at the city Of Annapolis. the 9Th day of
July, in the year 81 our Lord one thousand eight
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON.
JAMES T. BRIscoE, sec'y Of State.
July i6.-3m.