The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
Proclamation by the Governor.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one of Article fourteen
of the Constitution of Maryland makes 1t the
duty of the Governor to order the publication
in certain newspapers to be designated by him,
of any bill, or bills, passed proposing any
amendments to the said Constitution and
WHEREAS, ut the January Session, 1892, of
the General Assembly Of Maryland, bill was
passed proposing an amendment to the Consti-
tuition, which amendment is Chapter 313 of
the Acts of 1892, and is as follows, to wit:
CHAPTER 3l3
AN ACT to add an additional section to Arti-
Gle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION /. Be il enacted By the General Assem-
oily Of Maryland, Thrce-fifths of all the members
of the two houses concurring, that the follow
ing section be, AMI the same Is hereby propos-
ed, as an amendment to the Constitution of
this State; and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, rs herein provided
the same shall supercede and stand in the place
of Section thirty-nine of Article four of SAID
Constitution.
SEC. 80. The General Assembly shall, as
| often as it may think the same proper and ex-
pedient, provide by law for the election of an
additional Judge of the Supreme Bench of Bal
timore city, and whenever provision is so made
by the General Assembly, there shall be elect
ed by the voters of said city another Judge of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, who
shall be subject to the same constitutional
provisions, hold his office for the same term of
years, receive the same compensation, and
have the same powers rs are, or shall be pro-
vided by the Constitution, or laws of this State,
Ig..l
timorc city, and the General Assembly may
provide by laws, or the Supreme Bench by its
rules, for requiring causes in any of the courts
of Baltimore city to be tried before the Court
without IL jury, unless the ltigants some
one of them shall within such reasonable time
or times, as may be prescribed, elect to have
their causes tried before jury. And the Gen
eral Assembly may reapportion, change or Ell
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
| SEC 2. And be IT, further eRocted by the auttOTl
ty aforesaid, That the foregoing section hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
shall be- at the next general election to bt
held in this State, submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption Oh
rejection in pursuance of the direction con
tanned in Article fourtet n of the Constitution
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 Constitutional Amendment
or "A against the Constitutional Amendment
rs the voter may elect, and Immediately aftel
| said election due return shall be made to tht
Governor of the votes for and against said pro
posed amendment, as directed by said four
| taonth Article Of the Constitution.
Approved April 4th, 1892.
We hereby certify that the afOregoing is
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1892
VIC. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
Now, therefore, I, Frank Brown, GovernO
of Maryland, do hereby order and direct tina
the said hereinbcfore described bill, or Act o
the General Assembly, proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of Maryland. be pub
lished once Il week for ut least three month
in two newspapers published in each count
in this State, il so many are therein published
and in three newspapers in the city of Bait
more, before the next ensuing general cleo
ton, which will be held ON Tuesday, the sew
enth day of November, 1898; at which sal
election the proposed amendment aforesai
will be submitted TO the legal and qualifie
voters of Maryland for adoption Or rejection
Given under my hand an
! TUE the Great Seal of Maryland
mt the city OF Annapolis, q
GREATSEAL the 10th day of July, in tn
| OF year of our Lord, eightee
hundred and ninety thre,
] MARYLAND and of the Independence c
the United States, the on
hundred and sey enteenth.
FRANK BROWN.
by the Governor,
WIN. r. BRAN1LEY,
Secretary of state. 2Sju