The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-28
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 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 de-
scription, hereby designate as amendment
amendment number two; Chapter 242, desig-
mated as amendment number three; Chapter
255, designated as amendment number four;
Chapter 362, designated as amendment num-
Der five; and Chapter 426, designated as
amendment number six.
All which proposed amendments follow in
the order described, to wit:
NUMBER1
CHAPTER 1874.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen, of arti-
Gle two of the constitution of this State.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
assembly of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members of the two Houses concurring, that
the following section be and the same is here
by proposed as an amendment to the constitu-
ton of this State, and if adopted by the legal
and qualified voters thereof as herein provid-
ed, 1t 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 Dele
gates and the Senate, shall before it becomes
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 to reconsider the bill; if after
such reconsideration, three-ffths of the men,
bers elected to that House shall pass the bill
itshal be sent with the objections to the other
House, by which it shall likewise be reconsid-
cred, and ifpassed by three-fifths of the mem
bers elected to that House, it shall become q
law, but in all such cases the votes of both
Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays,
and names ofthe persons voting forand 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 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 ap-
preparations VI money, embracing
items, and the part or parts ofthe bill approved
shall be the law, and item or items or appro-
priations disapproved shall be void unless re-
passed according to the rules or limitations
prescribed for the passage of other bills over
the executive veto.
SECTION 2. And be 1t further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the said forego-
ing 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
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
rections contained in article fourteen of the
constitution ofthis State, and at the said gen.
eral election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words "for the constitutional
amendment" or against the constitutional
amendment" as the voter shall elect, and i'm
mediately 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 constitu.
ton.
Approved March 9th. 1890.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is o
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.