The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-10-03
NUMBER 6.
CHAPTER 42G.


AN ACT to amend section ffty.one of article
three of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, Three iifths of all the
members of the two Houses concurrinp, 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 it
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 eoanty or city where the resident bona
fde resides for the greater part OF the wear
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
| for 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 2. And be it further enacted 6v the
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
] auophlou Ut ISIecVlOns IN pursuance oil the
directions contained in article fourteen of tho
| Constitution of this State; and at the said
| general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be bv
| ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words s'for the consti.
tutional amendment or ''against the eonsti-
tutonal 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 Sth, $780,
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
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 T. EL1HU 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 proposinq a
separate amendment to the Constitution of
Maryland, be published once a week for at
least three months in two newspapers pub.
llshed IN each county in the State, if so many
are therein published, and in three news.
papers in the city of baltimore, before the
next ensuing general election, which will he
held on Tuesday, the third day of November
1891; at which said election all of the six
proposed amendments aforesaid will he
severally submitted to the legal and qualified
voters OF Maryland for adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and
,7 the Great Seal of Mary.
THE GREAT land, at the city of Annap.
| SEAL oils, on the sixteenth day
! OF MARY. Of July in the year Of our
| LAND. Lord eighteen hundred and
J ninety.one, and of the In.
dependence of the United
80 States the one hundred and
By the Governor.
L. w. LECoMrTE,
l Secretary of State. iy25 14t