The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
Proclamation by the Governor.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
WHEREAS Section one of Article fourteen
of the Constitution of Maryland makes il 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, a 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 313.
| AN ACT to add an additional section to Arti-
Gle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION 1. Be ii enacted By the General Assem-
bly, Of maryland, Three-fifths of all the members
of the two houses concurring, that the follow
| ing section be, and 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, as 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-
vidcd by the Constitution, or laws of this State,
| for the Judges of said Supreme Bench of Bal
| timore 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 a jury, unless the litigants or 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 Ell
| large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
SEC. 2. And be II. FURTHER enacted By the autho,a-
| ty aforesaid, That the foregoing section hereby
| proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
| shall be, at the next general election to be
held in this State, submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption OF
rejection in pursuance of the direction con.
| tanned 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 Constitutional Amendment
or Against the Constitutional Amendment
rs the voter may elect, and Immediately aftel
said election due return shall be made to the
Governor of the votes for and against said pro.
I tod hxrc ff.trf-
| teenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 4th, 1892.
We hereby certify that the aforegoingf is q
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, 1, Frank Brown, Governor
| of Maryland, do hereby order and direct thai
the said hereinbefore described bill, or Act OF
the General Assembly, proposing an amend
! ment to the Constitution of Maryland, be pub
lished 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 Balti
more, before the next ensuing general cleo
ton, which will be held on Tuesday, the sew
enth day of November, 1898; at which sait
| election the proposed amendment aforesaid
will be submitted to the legal and qualified
1 voters of Maryland for adoption or rejection
| Given under my hand ant
| THE the Great Seal of Maryland
! at the city of Annapolis, OF
i GREATS the 10Th day of July, in the
Il OF year of our Lord, eighteen
I hundred and ninety-three
| ! MARfLAN ! and of the Independence o.
| the United States, the ont
hundred and seventeenth.
FRANK BROWN.
| By the Governor,
WIN. Z. BRANTLEY,
Secretary of State. 2Sju