Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-07-25
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR
STATE OF MARYLAND.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

WHEREAS. Section one Of article four.
teen of the Constitution OF Maryland
makes II the duty Of the Governor 20 order
the publication In certain newspapers 10
be designated By him. " any BIZ, or Bills.
passed proposing any amendment to the
said Constitution.
And whereas. nj the January session
1890. Of the General Assembly of Mary
land six separate Bills were passed pro
posing that number of amendments TO
the Constitution which several amend.
ments are described as follows
Chapter 1874. which, for convenience of
description. | hereby designate as amend
mend number one Chapter 1915, desig
mated as amendment number two Chap
ter 242, designated as amendment number
three Chapter 255, designated as amend
ment number -four: Chapter 362, desig
mated as amendment number five, and
Chapter 426, 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
State
SECTION /. BE Il enacted by ne General
assembly ~ Maryland. Three-fifths of
all the members of the two Houses CON
curing, that the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the constitution of this State, and
if adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, Il shall super.
sede and stand in the place and instead of
section seventeen of article two of said
constitution
SECTION H. To guard against hasty OF
partial legislation. and encroachments of
the Legislative Department upon the CO.
ordinate, Executive and Judicial depart
ments every bill which shall have passed
the House of Delegates and the Senate,
shall before Ii becomes a law, be present.
ed 10 the Governor of the State II he APP
prove, he shall sign il but II not he shall
return It, with his objections, to the House
in which IL originated, which house shall
enter the objection at large on its journal,
| and proceed to reconsider the bill II
after such reconsideration, three fifths of
the members elected TO that House shall
pass the bill, il shall be sent with the oh.
jections TO the other House. by which Il
passed by three-fifths of the members
elected TO that House, II shall become a
law, but in all such cases the votes Oi
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 res.
pectively, If any bill shall not be returned
by the Gogernor within six days (Sundays
excepted after it shall have been pre-.
scented TO him, the same shall be law
in like manner as If he signed IL: unles,
the General Assembly shall. by adjourn
ment prevent its return, in which case Il
shall not be a law, the Governor shall
have power to disapprove of any item OF
items of any bills making appropriation,
| of money, embracing distinct items, and
the part or parts of the bill approved shall
be the law. and the item or items of ap
preparations disapproved shall be void
unless repassed according TO the rules OF
| limitations prescribed for the passage OF
other bills over the executive veto.
SECTION 2. Ind be IL further enacted bl
| he authority aforesaid, That the sale
| foregoing section hereby proposed as m
amendment TO the Constitution shall bt
| at the next general election held in thi,
State, submitted TO the legal and qualified
voters thereof for their adoption or rejec
ton, in pursuance of the directions con
tanned in article fourteen of the constitu
ton of this State, and at the said general
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the constitution shall be by ballot
and upon each ballot there shall be writ
ten 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 70 the Governor
of the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said four
teenth article of the constitution.
Approved March 27th, $780,
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing
is correct copy of an act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed January
session, 1890.
w. G.. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate
CARLTON SHAFER,
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