The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-08
PROCLAMATION BY THE
GOVERNOR.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTING

|
WHEREAS, Section one of article fourteen
of the Constitution of Maryland makes 1t the
duty Of the Governor TO order the publea-
ton in certain newspapers to be designated
| by him, of any Bill, or Bills. passed propos-
ing any amendment to the said Constitution.
And whereas at the January session 1890
of the General Assembly of Maryland SIX
separate Bills were passed proposing that
| number of amendments to the Constitutions
which several amendments are described as
| follows:
Chapter 1874 which, for convenience of de-
| scription, hereby designate as amendment
number one; Chapter 1876, designated as
amendment number two; Chapter 242, desig-
mated as amendment number three Chapter
255, designated as amendment number four;
| Chapter 362, designated as amendment
number five, and Chapter 426, designated as
amendment number six.
| All which proposed amendments follow IN
the order described, to wit:
NUMBER l.
CHAPTER 1874.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen, of
article two of the constitution of this
State.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted By the General
assembly of Maryland, Three-ffths of all
the members of the two Houses concerning,
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 here
in provided. it shall supersede and stand IN
the place and instead of section seventeen OF
article two of said constitution.
SECTION IL To guard against hasty or
martial legislation, and encroachments Of the
Legislative Department upon the co ordinate,
Executive and Judicial departments, every
bill which shall have passed the House OF
Delegates and the Senate, shall before it be-
comes a law, be presented to the Governor
of the State; if he approve, he shall sign 1t;
but if not he shall return it, with his obJec-
TONS to the House in which 1t originated,
which house shall enter the objections at
large on its journal, and proceed to reconsid-
er the bill; if after such reconsideration,
three filths of the members elected to that
House shall pass the bill, it shall be sent with
the objections to the other House, by which
it shall likewise be reconsdered, and if pass
ed 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 persons voting for and 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
General Assembly shall, by adjournment
prevent its return, in which case it shall moi
be a law, the Governor shall have power &c
disapprove of any item or items of any bills
making appropriations of money, embracing
distinct items, and the part or parts of the
bill approved shall be the law, and the item
or items Of appropriations disaproved shall
, be void unless repassed according to the
rules of limitations prescribed for the passag,
of other bills over the executive veto.
SECTION 2, And be ii further enacted b.
the authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an amend
, nent to the Constitution shall be at the mex
. general election held in this State, submitted
to the legal and qualified voters thereof 70
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance o
the directions contained in article fourteen O
: the constitution of this State, and at the SAT-
general election the vote on said proposes
; amendment to the constitution shall be b
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall b
written or printed the words ''lor the consti
tutional amendment or "against the con
stitutional amendment" as the voter sha
elect, and Immediately after said electio
due return shall be made to the Governor {
! the vote for and against said propose
amendment, as directed by the said fouI
- teeth article of the constitution.
Approved March 9th, 1890.
! We hereby certify, That the aforegoing
: a correct copy of an act of the General Al
r sembly of Maryland, passed January session
! 1890. w. g. PURNELl,
r Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.