Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-08-21
Proclamation bVtheGOYeTnOr
State Of Maryland,
Exanntiva Denartment

WHEREAs, Section one Of article fourteen Of
the Consultation Of Maryland makes il the duty
Of the Governor to order the publication IN GER
tain newspapers TO bedesignated by him ofany
Kill, or Bills, passed proposing any amendment
TO the said Constitution
And whereas at the January session 1880 ofthe
General Assembly Of Maryland six separate
Bills were passed proposing that number Of
amendments TO the Constitution; which several
amendments are described as follows;
Chapter 1874 which, for convenience ofdeser,p-
tion, hereby designa.e rs amendment humber
one, chapter 1885, drs gnatsd sHmendment NUM-
Der two; chapter ai9, designated a. amendment
number three; chapter 255, designated as amend
ment number tourt chapter 364, designated as
amendment number five, and chapter 426, des-
ignated as amendment number six
Allwhich proposed amendments follow in the
order described, to wit:
SuNBER l.
81 CHAPTER 1874
AN ACT TO amend section seventeen OF article
two Of the constitution Of this State.
SECTION !. Be u enacted BY The General Assembly
Of Maryland, Three-tifths Of all the members OF
the two Houses concnrring. that the following
section he and the same is hereby proposed rs
an amendment 10 the constitution Of this STATE,
and If adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, it shall supersede
and stand in the place and instead OF section
seventeen of article two Of said constitution,
see. Il. To guard against hasty or partial leg
lslation aud ehcroachments of The Legislative
Department upon the coordinate. Executive
nnu Judicial departments, every bill which SHAH
ate, shall before it becomes law, be presented
to the Governor of the State: If he approve he
shall sign it; but If not he shall return IL, with
his objections, to the House in which il origina-
ted which house shall enter the objections a I
large on It's journal, and proceed to reconsider
the bill: II after such reconsideration, three
Effths Of the members aleeted TO that House shall
pass the bill, IL shall be sent with the objections
to the other House, by which 1t shall likewise
be raeonsidsred. and II passed BY three-lifths Of
me members elected to that House, II shall be.
come 4 law, bat in all such cases the votes OF
both Houses shpEl be de .ermined by yeas and
ma IS, and the names of the persons voting for
and against the bill shall be entered on the lonr-
nal of each House respectively, il any bill shall
not be returned by the Governor within six
days Sundays eNceptedl after 1t shall have
been presented TO him, the same shall be 4 law
in lik, manner as if he signed it: unless the Cen
eral Assembly shall by adjournment prevent
its retnrnf an which case II shall not be a law
the Governor shall have power to disapproHe OF
amy item or items Of any bills making appropri.
aiions of money, embracing distinct items, ana
the part or parts the bill approved shall be the
law, and the item or items Of appropriations
disapproved shall be void unless repassed &C.
cording TO the rules or limitations prescribed
iet the passage of other bills over the executive
veto
see. q Ind be It further enacted by TIE authority
sforesqid. That the said foregoing section here
byproposed as anamendmentto1h the Constitution
shall be at the next general election held in this
State, submitted to the legal and qualified yo-
tiers thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the directions contained IN article
fourteen of the constitution of this State, and
at the said general election the vote on said
proposed amendment to the constitution shall
b., By ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be written or priu ted the words "for the coustt-
tutional amendmeE I" or against she eonstitu-
tionul amendment" rs the voter shall elect, and
Immediately after said election due return shall
be- made TO the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment ~ directed
by the said fourteenth article of the constitution
Approved March 9th, 1890.
We hereby certify, Thai the afor going Is a
correct copy Of an act Of the General Assembly
Of Maryland, passed January SESSION. lssO.
VIC. PURNELL.
Secretary of the Senate
GARSTON SHAFER,
Chief CLERK ofthe House Of Delegates.