Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-09-11
Proclamation bVtheGOVeTROr
State of Maryland,
Executive DEPARTMENT

WHEREAS, Section one Of article fourteen Of
the Constitution ofMarylaud makes 1t the duty
of the Governor to order the publicetion N GER
tain newspapers 10 be drsigna ted hy him, Of any
Bill, or Bills. passed proposing any amendment
10 the said Constitution
And whereas Al 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 desert bed as follows
Chapter 1874 which, for con venience OF descrip-
ton, hereby desigua.e as amendment number
one, chapter 1875, designated as amendment num-
Der TWO; chapter 242, designated a. amendment
number tEree; chapter 2jj dies gna ted as amend
ment number four; chapter 1902. desigma ted as
amendment number five. and chapter I36 des-
ignated rs amendment number six.
All which proposed amendments follow in the
order described, TO wit:
NUMBER l.
CHAPTER 1874
AN ACT to amend section seventeen, ofaIticle
two Of the constitution Of this state.
SECTION !. BE n enacted by he General Assembly,
Of Maryland, Three-lfths of all the members Of
the TWO Houses concurring. that the following
section be and the same is hereby proposed as
an amendment 10 The constitution Of this State,
and If adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, IL shall supersede
and stand in the place and instead OF section
seventeen Of article two Of said constitution,
Sec. u. To guard against hasty or partial leg
islatton, 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 sem
to the Governor Of the state; If he approve, he
shall sign 1t; but If not he shall return IL, with
his objections, TO the House in which it origna-
ted, which house shall enter the objections a I
large on its journal, and proceed to reconsider
the bill; if after such reconsideration. three
hfthS of the mem bers elected TO that House shall
pass the bill, ii shall be sent with the obiec
to the other House, by which il shall likewise
be reeonsideTed and if passed by three-iifths of
the members elected to that House, il shall be-
come a law, but in all such cases the votes of
hOfD Houses shall be dc tprmiupn Y n nd
nays, and the names Of the persons voting for
and against the bill shall be entered on the jour
nal of each House respectively, il any bill shall
not be returned by the Governor within six
days Sundays exceptedl after il shall havs
been nted to him. the same shall be a law
in ik. manner IL he signed il; unless the Gen
eral Assembly shall, by adjournment prevent
its return; in which case IT, shall not be law,
the Governor shall have power TO disapprove of
any item or items of any bills making appropri-
attons of money, embracing distinct items, and
the part parts of the bill approved shall be the
| law, and the item or items OF appropriations
disapproved shall be void unless repassed ac-
eordng TO the rules limitations prescribed
for the passage of other bills over the executive
veto
see. ,. Ind be ii further enacted By the authority
/ aforesaid, That the said foregoing section here
/ byproposed as anamendmentto the Constitu ton
shall be at the next general election held in this
State, submitted TO the legal and qualified vo-
| tiers thereof for their adoption rejection, in
pursuance Of the directions contained in article
! fourteen of the constifution of this State, and
at the said general election the vote on SAID
proposed amendment to the constitution shall
1 he by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
| be written printed the words Tor the consli
| tutional amendment or against the constitu.
tional amendment" rs the voter shall elect, and
immediately after said election due return shall
be made to the Governor of the vote for aud
against said proposed amendment us directed
by the said fourteenth article of the constitution
| Approved March 27th, 1890.
We hereby certify, That the aforegon is a
! correct copy of an act of the General Assembly
| of Maryland, passed January session. 1850.
| w. q. PURNEII..
Secretary Of the Senate
CARSTON SNAPPER
Chief Clerk Of the House of Delegates