Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-09
Proclamation bVtheGoVeTnOf
State Of Maryland,
Executive DeDaftMent.

WHEREAS, Seets@A sae Of article fourteen Of
the Constitution ~ Maryland makes II the duty
Of the tiovernor - order the peei,eation ~ GER
tain neYfpapcrs to bedesixpated by him, ofanS
Bill, or Bills passed proposing aBy amendment
W the said Constitution
And whereas AT the Jan ia nv session i-sO OF the
General Asse@bly ~ Maryland SIN separate
Bills were Passtd proposing that nuiHe,'f VI
Amendments to the Constitution: which several
amendments are described as followsi
Chapter is4 which, for convenipnce Of desrfip-
tOn, hereby designa, e as amendment number
one, chapter 95fdrsigHtled ne amendfheht ntfm-
Der Nv o: chapter 24g, designated a. ameud naent
number threei chapter 255, designated as amend
ment number four; chapter J62, Designated as
amendment number five. and chapter 476, des-
ignated as amendment number six.
All which proposed amendments follow in the
order described, TO wit:
NUMBER 1.
CHAPTER fg4
AN ACT TO amend section seventeen, Of fftfele
tive Of the constitution of this State.
SECTION J. Be u enacted bg the General 4ssemby
Of Maryland, Three-hfths OF all the members OF
the two Houses eoncurring. that the following
section be and the same is hereby proposed rs
4 amendment TO the constitution Of this State,
and II adopted by the legal and qualified voters
and stand IN the place and instead of section
seventeen Of article two of said constitution,
Sec. IL. To guard against hasty or partial leg
islation, aud encToachments Of the Legislative
Department up6n the coordinate, Executive
and judicial departments every bill which shall
have passed the House of Delegates and the Sem
ate. SnHii DtfOre ~ UtGOffspS lNWy Up presented
to the Governor Of the states IL he approve, he
shall sign IL; but IL not he shall return 1T, with
his objections 10 the House In which IL origina-
ted, which house shall enspf the objections at
large on its joufnsis aud proceed to reconsider
the bill; IL after sgch reconsideration, three
fifths of the members elected to that House shall
pass the bill, IL shall be sent with the objections
to the other Honse, by which ii shall likewise
be reconsidsred. and N passed by three-fifths Of
the members elected to that House, ii Shs II be-
come a law but IN all saeh cases the votes Of
Assth ma ha dat
nays, and the names OF the persons voting for
and against the siiT shaII be entered on the iour
nal Of each House respectively, IL any bill shall
not be returned by the Governor within six
days Sundays exceptedl after ii shall have
been presented to him, the aame shall be a law
in lik. manner as If he signed it; unless the Gen
erai Assembly shall, by adjournment prevent
its returni in which case il shall not be a law,
the Governor shall have power TO disapprove Of
any item or items of any bills making appropr-
atiOns of money. embracing distinct items, and
the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the
law, and the item items OF appropriations
disapproved shall be void unless repassed ac-
cording to the rules or Limitation. prescrib bed
foI the passage of other bills over the executive
veto
See. .. And Be il furtasr enacied bv the authority
aforesaid, That the said foregoing section here
bypropOSed as anamendmenttot the Con stitution
shall be ut the next general election held in this
State, submitted to the legal and qualified vo.
tiers thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance Of the directions contained in article
fourteen of the constitution of this State. md
st the said general election the vote on said
proposed amendment to the cUpstitution shall
be BY ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be written or printed the words ''for the eonsii-
tutional amendment" or against She coustitu-
tional amendment" as 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 as directed
by the said fourteenth article OF the constitution
Approved March 27th, 1890.
We hereby certify, That the afor going is Il
correct copy OF an act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed January session. 1890.
W. q. PURNELI.
Secretary of the Senate
CARSTON SHAFER
Chief Clerk of the House of DeIegat ties