The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-29
NUMBER i.
CHAPTER 42G.

CHAPTER 42G.
AN ACT TO amend section fifty one of article
three of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. BE ii enacted By the General
1SSemblyof Maryland, Three iifths 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 If
shall supercede and stand in the place and
stead Of section fifty one of article three of the
Constitution of this State.
SECTION 81. The personal property of resi-
dents Of this State shall be subject to taxation
in the county or city where the resident bona
iide resides for the greater part of the year
for which the tax may or shall be levied, and
not elsewhere, except goods and chattels
permanently located, which shall be taxed in
the city or county where they are so located,
but the General Assembly may by law provide
Tor the taxation OF mortgages upon property
in this State and the debts secured thereby in
the county or city where such property is
situated.
SECTION ,. And be it further enacted bvth
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment
TO the Constitution shall be, at the next gen
eral election held in this State. submitted TO
the legal and qualified voters 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 be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words "for the consti.
tutional amendment" or against the consti-
tutional 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 April 9Th, 1890.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is
correct copy of an act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January session, 1890.
w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
Now therefore !, ELIHU E. JACKSON.
Governor of Maryland, do hereby order and
direct that each and all of the said herein
before described Bills, or Acts of the General
Assembly, six in number, each proposing a
separate amendment to the Constitution of
Maryland, be published once a week for at
least three months in two newspapers pub.
llShed IN eaeh county IN the State, II so many
are therein published, and in three news
papers in the city of Baltimore. before the
next ensuing general election, which will be
held on Tuesday, the third day of November
1891; at which said election all of the sig
proposed amendments aforesaid will be
seyerally submitted to the legal and qualified
voters of Maryland for adoption or rejection
Given under my hand and
the Great Seal of Mary
-.yr o,, land, at the city of Annap.
mn o oils, on the sixteenth day
op NV. of July in the year of our
80 Lord eighteen hundred and
ninety.o one, and of the In
--- dependence of the United
States the one hundred and
fifteenth. ELIHU e. JACKSON.
By the Governor:
L. w. LECoMPTE,
Secretary Of State. jy25 l4t