Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-09-18
Proclamation bVtheGOYcTnOf
State Of Maryland,
Executive Department

wnrnSAs. Section one Of article fourteen Of
the Constitution Of Aiaryland makes 10 she duty
Of the Governor 20 order The publication 90 cpr-
tain new spaprrs TO hrdrsignated by him. ofanA
Rill, Or Bills. passed proposing any amendment
TO the said Constitution.
And whereas at the January session t-s0 Of the
General Assembly OF Mary land SIX separate
Bills were passed proposing that number OF
amendments 10 the Constitution; which several
amendments are descrih bed as follows;
Chapter Isl which, for convenience Of deserip-
ton, hereby designate rs amendment numbpr
one, chapter 1875, signNted as amendment num-
her TWO: chautpr ~. designated as amendment
mont number four; chapter Jd1, designated as
amendment number five. and chapter 426, des-
iguated as amendment number six.
All which proposed amendments follow in the
order described, 10 wit:
NuwBER 1.
CTAPTER 1874
AN ACT to amend section seventeen, Of article
two OF the constitution of this state.
SECTION J. BE- tH1cfed bg ne gensr9i assembly
NJ Maryland, Three-tfths of all the members OF
the two Houses concurrtug. that the following
section he and the same is hereby proposed
an amendment 10 the constitution of this STATE,
and If adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof rs herein provided, It shall supersede
and stand in the place aud instead OF section
seventeen of article two Of said constitution,
Sec. II. To guard against hasty or partial leg
islaton, and encroachments Of the legislative
Department upon the coordinate, Executive
and judicial departments. every bill which shall
have passed the House Of Delegates and the sem
ate. snail before a. becomes a law. be ted
TO the Governor OF the stale; II he approve, he
shall sign il: but if not ne shall return H. with
his objections, to the House III which II origina-
led, which house shall enter the objections at
large on its journal, and proceed to reconsider
the bill; if after such reconsideration, three
Gfths OF the members elected TO that House shall
pass the bill, it shall be sent with the objections
10 the other House by which it shall likewise
be reconsidered. and If passed by thTee-hfths of
the members elected to that House it shall be-
come a law, but in all sucu cases the votes of
boil do eaaHaa6 a
nays, and the names of the persons voting for
and against the bill shall be entered on the jour
nal of each House respectively, II any bill shall
not be returned by the Governor within six
DAYS tSuudays exceptedj after it shall have
been presented to him, the same shall be a law
in lk, manner as If he signed IL; unless the Cen
eral Assembly shall, by adjournment prevent
its return; in which case il shall not be a law,
the Governor shall have power to disapproVe OF
any item or items OF any bills making appropri-
ations of money, embracing distinct items, and
the part or parts of the bill approved shan be the
law. and the item or items OF appropriations
diSapproved shall be void unless rcpassed ae-
cording 10 the rules or limitations prescribed
for the passage of other bills over the executive
veto
sec .. Ind be it further enacted By the q,,iAorii,
| gf0resqtd That the said foregoing section here
/ byproposed AS auamendmenttoth the institution
shall be at the next general election held i'll thi.
4 State, submitted to the legal and qualified vo-
/ tiers thereof for their adoption or rejection, ia
pursuance of the directions contained IN article
! fourteen OF the 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 "for the cOnsti
| tutonal amendment or against the constitu
| ttonal amendment rs the voter shall elect, and
1 Immediately after said election due return shan
| be made TO the Governor of the vote for aud
I against said proposed amendment Us directed
by the said fourteenth article OF the constitution
| Approved March 21ih, l-y0.
We hereby certify, That the aforrgoing is a
correct copy of an act OF the General Assembly