The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-09-12
PROCLAMATION BY THE
GOVERNOR
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one of article fourteen
of the Constitution Of Maryland makes It the
duty of the Governor TO order the publica-
ton in certain newspapers to be designated
by him, of any Bill, or Bills, passed propos-
ing any amendment to the said Constitution.
And whereas at the January session 1890
of the 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 OF de-
scription, hereby designate as amendment
number one; Chapter 1876, designated as
amendment number two; Chapter 242, desig-
mated as amendment number three; Chapter
255, designated as amendment number four;
CHAPTER 362, designated as amendment
number five, and Chapter 42G, designated as
amendment number SIX.
All which proposed amendments follow IN
the order described to wit:
NUMBER !.
CHAPTER 1874.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen, of
article two Of the constitution of this
State.
SECTION l. Be IL enacted by the General
| assembly Of Maryland, Three-fiths OF all
/ tlle 0lbIlDeTS Ol Tue TWO llOuSCo COhNhlliiSi
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 here
in provided. it shall supersede and stand in
the place and instead of section seventeen of
article two of said constitution.
SECTION II. To guard against hasty or
partial legislation, 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 Senate, shall before it be-
comes 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 oblec-
lions, to the House in which it originated,
which house shall enter the objections at
large on its journal, and proceed to reconsid-
er the bilI if after such reconsideration,
three -fiiths of the members elected to that
House shall pass the bill, it shall be sent with
the objections to the other House, by which
it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if pass
ed by three-ffths of the members elected to
that House, it shall become a 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, if any 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
prevent its return, in which case it shall moi
be a law, the Governor shall have power tc
disapprove of any item or items of any bills
making appropriations of money, embracing
distinct items, and the part or parts of the
| ,,,rn,..J e,,li ha tho lou, apl tho Ton,
or items of appropriations disaproved shall
be void unless repassed according to the
rules of limitations prescribed for the passage
of other bills over the executive veto.
SECTION =, Ind be IL further enacted b,
the authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution shall be at the mex
general election held in this State, submitted
, to the legal and qualified voters thereof TO
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance o
the directions contained in article fourteen o
the constitution of this State, and at the saiC
general election the vote on said proposed
, amendment to the constitution shall be b,
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall b.
written or printed the words "for the consti
tutional amendment" or against the con
stitutional amendment as the voter shall
elect, and Immediately after said election
: due return shall be made to the Governor o
the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said four
! teeth article of the constitution.
Approved March 9th, 1890.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing il
a correct copy of an act of the General As
sembly of Maryland, passed January session
1890. w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.