The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-09-29
CHAPTER 313.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Arti-
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AN ACT to add an additional section to Arti-
Gle of the Constition Of this State.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the General
1ssemblu of Maryland, Three-tifths of all the
members of the two houses concurring, that
the following section be, and the same is her
by proposed, as all amendment to the COnsti'
uton of this State: and if adopted by the legal
and qualified voters thereof, as herein provide
ed, the same shall supsrcede and stand in the
place of Section thirty-nide Of Article four Of
said Constitution.
SEC. 80. The General Assembly shall, As
often as itmay think the same proper and ex
pedient, provide by law for the election OF
an additional Judge of the Supreme Bench Of
Baltimore Bity, and whenever provision is so
made by the General Assembly. there shall be
elected by ahe voters of said city another Judge
of the Supreme Bench Of Baltimore City, who
shall be subject 10 the same constitutional pro
visions, held his office far the same term OF
wears, receive the same compensation, have
the same power as are, or shall be provided
by the Constitution, or laws OF this State, for
the Judges of sad Supreme Bench OF Balti
more City, and the General Assembly may
provide by laws or the Supreme Bench by its
rules, for requiring ciuaes IN any Of the courts
IF Baltimore city to be tried before the Court
wit, out a jury, unless the litigants or some
one of them shall withiO such reasonable time
or times, as may be prescribed, elect to have
their causes tried before jury. And the Gen
ara Assembly may reappprtion change OF Ell
la"ge the jurisdiction Of the several courts in
said city.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, thu
authority aforesaid, That the toregoin g sec
lion hereby proposed AS Ill amendment to the
Constitution shall be, at the general election
to be held in this State, submitted II the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adoption
or rejection in pursuance of the direction
coula aimed in Article fourteen of the COnstltu-
ton of this STATE; and at the said general cleo
ton the vote on said proposed amendment to
the Constitution shall be by ballot aud upon
each ballot there shall be written or printed
the words .FOr the constitutional Amend
ment," or Against the Constitutional Amend
mont" as the voter may elect, and immediate.
" after said election due return shall be made
to The Governor of the votes for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by said
fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 4th 1892.
We hereby certify that the aforesoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1892
w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk Of the House of Delegates.
Now, therefore, !, Frank Brown, Governor
Of Maryland do hereby order and direct that
the said herenbefore described bill, or Act OF
the General Assembly, proposing All amend
ment to the Constitution of Mary land, be pub
lished once a week for al least three months iD
two newspapers publ shed in each county i'll
this stale, il SO many are therein published,
and in three newspapers in the city of Balii-
more, before the next ensuing general cleo
ton, which will be held on Tuesday, the
seventh 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 nnder my hand and
[-~~-) the great seal Of Maryland,
THE at the city of Annapolis, OH
I GREAT SEAL the 10Th day Of July, in the
OF )year of our Lord, eighteen
: MARYLAND. HUNDRED and ninety-three.
(-~-an and of the Independence OF
the United States, the one hundred and sew
.enteen.
FRANK BROWN.
Be- the Governor,
WIN. T. BRANTLY,
Secretary of Staten
July 2S-tf