Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-09-04
Proclamation bytheGOVeInOT


EAftublNc Ucpdl bhAS--I
WuER9As Section one OF article fourteen Of
the Constitution Of Maryland makes it the duty
Of the Governor 10 order the publication 10 GER
tain new snapprs to bedesignated BY him, otany
Bill, or Bills. passed proposing any amendment
to The said Constitution.
Aud whereas ~ the January session 1870 Of the
General Assembly Of Maryland six separate
Bills were passed proposing that number OF
amendments to the Constitution: which several
amendments re described as follows;
Chapter lg4 which, for convenience Of deserip-
ton. hereby designate as amendment number
one chapter los, drsig naie ed ~ amendment num-
her Two: chapter "a, designated rs amendment
number llsrtr: chapter 25j, designated as amend
innnt number four; chapter M, designated as
amendment number live. and chapter l2t, des-
iRuated q : amendment number six.
An which proposed amendments follow in the
order described, to wit:
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rH1PTER 1874
An ACT 10 amend section seventeen. of article
tive OF the constitution Of this State
SECTION ], b. u eaDcted Nv ne GeHerdi -tssembg
NJ HagBlgHd, Three-tiiths of all the members or
the two Houses eoncurring. that the following
section be and the same is hereby proposed rs
au amendment 10 the constitution of this state,
and il adopted 10y the legal and qualified voters
thereof AZ herein provided, it shall supersede
aud stand in tile place and instead OF section
seventeen Of article two of said constitution,
See. IL. To guard against hasty or partial leg
slatiou, and encroachments of the Legislative
department upon the coordinate Executive
and judicial departments. every bill which shall
have passed the House Of Delegates and the SEN
ate. shall before it becomes a law, be presented
to the Governor of the state: If he approve, he
shall sigu 81; but if not he shall return IT, with
his objections, to the House in which II origna-
ted, which house shall enter the objections at
large on its journal, and proceed to recons ider
the bill. if after such reconsideration three
iifhs OF the members elected to that Honse shall
pass the bill. tt shall be sent with the objections
TO the other House, by which II shall likewise
be reconsiderej. and If passed by three-itths OF
the members elected TO that House, it shall be-
come h law, but in All such eases the votes OF
both Houses shall be de sermined by yeas and
NAYS, and the names of the persons voting for
and against the bill shall be entered on the jour
nal of zach House respectively, If any bill shall
not be returned by the Governor within six
| DAYS fSundays eXceptedl after IL shall havd
been presen ted to him, the same shall be u law
in lik, manner ii he signed it; unless the Gen
eral Assembly shall, by adjournment prevent
its return: in which case it shall not be a law,
1 the q overuor shall have power to dsapprove Of
any item or items of any bills making appropri-
atious of money, embracing distinct items, and
tile part or parts ofthe bill approved shall be the
/ law aud the item or items OF appropriations
| disapproved shall be void unless rrpassed ac
cording to the rules or limitations prescribed
for the passage Of other bills over the executive
/ veto
sec. , and he Il further enacted b. The auttorit,
aforesaid, That the said foregoing section here
! hyproposed rs anHmendmenttot the Constitution
shall be 4 the next general election held in thi.
state. submitted to the legal and qualified vo
tiers thereof for their adoption rejection, it
pursuance Of the directions contained in article
fourteen Of the constitution Of this State, ant
at the said general election the vote ON sue
| proposed amendment to the constitution shall
| b. bv ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
| he written or printed the words "for the consti
| tutional amendment" or against the coustitu
tiontl amendment as the voter shall elect, ant
Immediately after said election due return shall
| be made to the Governor Of the vote for ant
against said proposed amendment rs directed
by the said fourteenth article of the constitution
Approved March 21tht 1890
We hereby certify, That the afor9 going Is
correct copy of an act OF the General Assembl.
Of Mafyland, passed January session. l-9O.
WIG. PURNELL.
Secretary OF the Senate
CARST0N SHAFER,
I Chief Clerk OF the House of Delegates