Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-10-02
Proclamation bVtheGOVeTnOT
State of Maryland,
EXanntiYa Denartment.

WHEREAS, Section one OF article fourteen Of
the Constitution of Maryland makes ~ the duty
Of the Governor to order the publication IN GER
tain newspapers to bedesignated by him, ofany
Ilill. or Bills, passed proposing any amendment
to the aid Constitution.
And whereas at the January session lsgO of the
General Assembly Of Maryland six separate
Bills were passed proposing that number Of
amendments to the Constitu ton; which several
amendments are described as follows;
Chapter s4which, for convenience Of descrip-
tion. hereby designa,e as amendment number
one, chapter 1875, designated rs amendment num-
Der two; chapter 242, designated as amendment
number three; chapter 255, designated as amend
ment number four; chapter 362, designated as
amendment number five. and chapter 426, des-
ignated as amendment number six
All which proposed amendments follow in the
order described, TO wit:
NUMBER l.
AN ACT TO amend section seventeen, Of article
two Of the constitution of this State.
SEcrIoNi /. Be q enacted by tie General AssspbIy
of Maryland, Three-ffths of all the members Of
the two Houses cOncurring. that the following
section be and the same is hereby proposed as
an amendment 10 the constitution Of this state,
and IL adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, II shall supersede
and stand in the place and instead OF section
seventeen Of article two Of said constitution,
Sec. II. To guard against hasty or partial leg
isation, and encroaehments Of the Legislative
Department upon the coordinate, Executive
and judicial departments. every bill which shall
have passed the House ofDelegates and the Sen
ate. shall before il becomes a law, be presented
to the Governor of the State; if he approve, he
shall sign IL; but il not he shall return II, with
his objections, to the House in which it orgina-
/ ted, which house shall enter the objections at
large on it's journal, and proceed TO reconsider
the bills il after such reconsideration, three
ffthS Of the members elected to that House shall
pass the bill, IL shall be sent with the objections
40 the other House, by which IL shall likewise
| be recOnsidered, and ifpassed by thrce-ffths of
/ the members elected to that House, IL shall be-
come n 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 the jour
| nal of each House respectively il any bill shall
not be returned by the Governor within six
days Sundays exceptedl after il shall havs
| been presen ted to him, the same shall be la W
in lik, manner if he signed II; unless the Gen.
eral Assembly shall, by adjournment prevent
| its return; in which case H. shall not be q law
! the Governor shall have power to disapprove OF
any item or items OF any bills making appropri
atoms of money, embracing distinct items, and
the part or parts the bill approved shall be the
law, and the item or items OF appropriations
disapproved shall be void unless repassed &C
| cording TO the rules or limitations prescribed
for the passage of other bills over the executive
veto
| Sec g. And be IL further eaeeted by the AUTHORITY
aforesaid, That the said foregoing section here
/ byproposed as anamendmenttot the Constitu tion
shall be at the next general election held in thi:
| State, submitted to the legal and qualified vO
tiers thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
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 by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be written or printed the words "for the consti
tutiOnal amendment" or against the constitu
| tional amendment as the voter shall elect and
| Immediately after said election due return shall
be made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment rs directed
BY the said fourteenth article of the constitution
| Approved March 9th, 1890.
| We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is 4
| correct copy of an act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed January session. 1890.
! w. G. PURNELL.
| Secretary of the Senate
CARSTON SHAFER
| Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates