Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-07-27
Proclamation by the Governor.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one of Article four
teen of the Constitution of Maryland makes
it 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. at the January Session, 1892,
Of the General Assembly of Maryland, II
bill was passed proposing an amendment
TO the Constitution, which amendment is
Chapter 3l3 of the Acts of 1892, and is as
follows, TO wit:
CHAPTER sI3.
AN ACT TO add an additional section TO
Article four of the Constitution of this
State.
SECTION l. Be it enacted bg the General
assembly Of Maryland, Three fifths of all
the members of the two houses concurring.
that the following section be, and the same
is hereby proposed, as an amendment to
the Constitution of this State; and il adopt
ed by the legal and qualified voters thereof,
IS herein provided, the same shall super
cede and stand in the place of Section
thirty nine of Article four of said Constitu-
ton.
SEC. 30. The General Assembly shall,
as often as il may think the same proper
and expedient, provide by law for the cleo
ton of an additional Judge of the Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore city, aud when
ever provision is 80 made by the General
Assembly, there shall be elected by the vo-
tiers OF said city another Judge of the Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore city, who shall
be subject TO the same constitutional pro-
visions, hold his Office for the same term of
years, receive the same compensation, and
have the same powers as are or shall be
provided by the Constitution, or laws of
this State, for the Judges of said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore city, ana the General
Assembly may provide by laws, or the Su.
preme Bench by its rules, for requiring
causes in any of the courts of Baltimore
city TO be tried before the Court without
jury, unless the litigants or some 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
enlarge the jurisdiction of the several
courts in said city.
SEC. 9. And Be Il further enacted, BIZ the
authority aforesaid, Tn 1t the foregoing Sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution, shall be, at the next gen.
eral election TO be held in this State, sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection in
pursuance Of the direction contained in
Article fourteen of the Constitution of this
State; and at the said general election the
vote ON said proposed amendment 10 the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon
each ballot there shall be written or print
ed the words "For the Constitutional
Amendment" or Against the Constitu-
tional Amendment" as the voter may
elect, and Immediately after said election
due return shall be made 10 the Governor
of the votes for and against said proposed
Amendment, as directed by said fourteenth
Article of the Constitution.
Approved, April 4, 1892.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is
correct copy of an Act Of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed January
Session, 1892.
VIC. PURNELI.,
Secretary OF the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates.
Now, therefore, /, Frank Brown, Gov
ernor OF Maryland, do hereby order and
direct that the said hcreinbefore described
bill. or Act of the General Assembly, pro-
posing an amendment to the Constitution
of Maryland, be published once a week for
at least three months in two newspapers
published in each county in this State, if
so many are therein published. and in
three newspapers in the city of Baltimore.
before the next ensuing general election.
which will be held on Tuesday, the sew,
enth day of November. 1898; at which
said election the proposed amendment
aforesaid will be submitted TO the legal and
qualified voters of Maryland for ADOPTION
or rejection.
Given under my hand
and the Great Seal Of Ma
ryland, at the city of An
THE napolis, on the 10Th day
GREAT SEAL ofJuly, in the year Of our
or Lord, eighteen hundred
| MARYLAND. and ninety three, and Of
| the Independence of the
t-- United States, the one
hundred and seventeenth.
FRANK BROWN.
By the Governor,
WM. I. BRASTLY,
Secretary Of State.