The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-25
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.
STATE OF MARYLAND.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
W HEARAs, Section one of article fourt, eI
OF the Consultation of Maryland makes it tn,
| duty of the Governor to order the publication
IN certain newspapers to be designated by
niln, OF any Bill or Bills, passed proposing
fNfly amendment to the said Constitution.
And whereas at the January session 1890 O
tne General Assembly of ofMaryland six sep.
iarate Rilis were passed proposing that mum.
hpeF otA59a andnepts to the Constitution; which
salfIendment are described as follows
geB lgf which for convenience or de-
lEerlptiQuS hereby designate as amendment
IR1umpef one Chapter 1876. designated as
iamendment number two; Chapter 142 desig-
mated as amendment number three; Chapter
NZ06. designated as amendment number four :
tGhapter 362. designated as amendment num-
I koer 1ive, and Chapter 426, designated as amend
fment number six.
All which proposed amendments follow in
4 the order described, to wit:
ENUMBERI
< CHAPTER 1874.
IA n ACT to amend section seventeen, ofarti-
Gle two of the constitution of this State.
SECTION |. Be IL enacted by The General is
senl6ly 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 consti-
tuition of this State, and if adopted by the
regal and qualified voters thereOfaS herein
provided, it shall supercede and stand in the
place and instead of section seventeen OraTti-
Gle two OF said constitution.
SECTION IL. To guard against haSty or par
tlal legislation, and encrOachmentS or 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 he
comes law. be presented to the Governor of
the state; II he approve he shall sign it; but
II not he shall return it, with his objections
to the House in which it originated, which
house shall enterthe objections at large ON
its journal, and proceed to reconsider the bill
if after such reconsideration. three fifthS OF
elected HnnSp
the bill il shall be sent with the objections to
the other House, by which it shall likewise
be reeonsidered, and if it passed by three
fifths 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 per
sons voting for and against the bill shall be
entered on the journal of each House rcSpec-
lively, ifany bill shall noF be returned by the
Governor within six days Sunday eXceptetD
after it shall have been presented to him the
same shall be Il law in like manner as if he
had signed il; unless the General Assembly
shall, by adjournment prevent its return, in
which case it shall not be a law, the Governor
shall have power to diSapprOVe OF any item
or items Ofany bills making appropriations
ofmoney. embracing distinct items and the
part or parts of the bill approved shall he the
law, and the item or items of appropriations
diSapproved shall be void unless repaSScd ac-
cortling to the rules of limitation prescribed
for the passage of other bills over the eXecu-
tive veto.
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment
to the Constitutions shall be at the next gen
eral election held in this state, submitted to
the legal and qualified voter thereof for thcir
adoption or rejection. in pursuance ofthe di-
rectiOnS contained in article fourteen of the
constitution the State. and at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shah he
written or printed the words "lur the conSti-
tutional amendment" or against the cOnSt.
tutional amendment as the voter shall elect,
and Immediately after said election due re
turn shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend-
ment, as directed by the said fourteenth arti-
Gle of the constitution.
Approved March 27th 1890
We hereby certify, That the aforpgoimg is a
correct copy of an act of the General Assem-
by OF Maryland, passed January session, 1870.
w. q. PURNELL,
Secretary Oi the senate.
CARLTON SHAFER.
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.