Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-09-18
PROCLAMATION BY THB GOVERNOR.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

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WHEREAS, Section one of article fourteen Of
the Constitution of Maryland makes it the du-
ty of the Governor to order the publication
in certain newspapers to be designated by him
Of any Bill or Bills passed proposing any
amendment to the said Constitution.
And whereas at the January session 1890 OF
the General Assembly of Maryland six separ-
ate Bills were passed proposing that number
of amendments to the Constitution, which
several amendments are described as follows:
Chapter 1874, which for convenience Of des-
cription hereby designate as amendment num-
Der one: Chapter 1856, designated as amend
ment number two; Chapter 242 designated
as amendment number three Chapter 255,
designated as amendment number four; Chap
ter 1862, designated as amendment number
FIVE, and Chapter 426, designated as amend
ment number six.
All which proposed amendments follow in
the order described, TO wit:
NUMBER l.
CHAPTER 1874.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen of article
two of the constitution of the State.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members of the two Houses concurrng, that
the following section be and the same is here
by proposed as an amendment to the consti-
tuition of this State, and if adopted by the le-
gal and qualified voters thereof as herein pro-
vided, il shall supersede and stand in the
place and instead of section seventeen of ar
ticle two OF said constitution.
Section II. To guard against hasty or par
tial legislation, and encroachments of the Le-
glslative department upon the coordinate Ex-
ecutive and Judicial departments, every bill
which shall have passed the House of Dele
gates and the Senate, shall before it becomes a
law be presented to the Governor Of the State;
if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not he
shall return it, with his objections, to the
house in which it originated, which house
shall enter the objections at large on its jour
nal, and proceed 10 reconsider the bill if after
such reconsideration, three-fifths of the mem
bers elected to that house shall pass the bill,
it shall be sent with the objections to the 9TH
er house, by which 1t shall likewise be recon-
sidered, and if passed by three-fifths of the
members elected to that house, it shall be-
come law, but in all such cases the votes of
both houses shall be determined by yeas and
nays, and the names of the persons voting
| for and against the bill shall be entered on the
journal of each house respectively ifany bill
shall not be returned by the Governor within
six days Sundays excepted after it shall have
been presented to him, the same shall be law
| in like manner as if he signed it unless the
General Assembly shall by adjournment pre-
vent its return, in which case it shall not be a
law; the Governor shall have power to dis
approve OF any item or items of any bills
making appropriations of money, embracing
distinct items, and the part or parts Of the
bill approved shall be the law, and the item
or items of appropriations disapproved shall
be void unless repassed according to the rules
or limitations prescribed for the passage Of
other bills over the executive veto.
| Section 2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall be at the next general
election held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance Of the di-
rections 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 const-
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 d-
recied by the said fourteenth article of the con-
stitution
Approved March 9th, 1890.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is u
correct copy of an act of the General Assem-
bly, of Mary land passed January session, 1890.
W. G PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk Of the House of Delegates.