The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-10-14
cHER1FFs ELECTION NOTICE.

I L Y Il
Notice Is hereby given 10 the Judges OF
Election and to the Qualified Voters OF Gar.
roll county. that an election will be held IN
The several Election Districts and frecihclsc
Of eT' Carroll county, at the usual places OF
holding elections, on
The first Tuesday, after the nfsI
Monday, of November. 1898,
it being the 9TH day of
said month,
For the purpose of eecting
One person for Comptroller OF the treasury
of the State of Maryland.
One person TO be Chief Judge of the Filth
Judicial Circuit of Maryland.
One person 10 be Associate Judge OF the
Fifth judicial Circuit of Maryland.
Four persons to represent Carroll comfy
in the House of Delegates of Maryland
One person to be County Commissioner OF
Carroll county.
One person to be County Treasurer Of Car
roll county.
One person to be Sheriff of Carroll county.
One person to be County Surveyor OF Car
roll county.
Voters will also cast their ballots for or
against the following CONSTITUTIONAL
Amendment, in accordance with the follow
inr Act of the General Assembly, passed at
January Session, 1892, for amending the
| Constitution of the State:
CHAPTER 3l3.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Ar
| ticle four of the Constitution OF tins State,
| SECTION /. BE IL enacted By 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 here
by proposed, as an amendment to the Constr
tuition 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 ana
expedient, provide by law for the election OF
an additional Judge Of the Supreme Bench OF
Baltimore city, and whenever provision is so
made by the General Assembly, there shall
be elected by the voters of said city another
| Judge OF the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
city, who shall be subject TO the same constr
tutional provisions, hold his Office for the
same term of years, receive the same com
pensation, and have the same powers as are,
or shall be provided by the Constitution, or
| laws of this State, for the judges of said Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore city, and the Gen
eral Assembly may provide bylaws, 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 jury,
unless the litgants 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 General Assembly
may rcapporlon, change or enlarge the jurls-
dietion of the several courts in said city.
SEC. =. And be 1t further enacted, By the
authority aforesaid, That the foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to the
| Constitution shall be, at the next general
election to be held in this State, submitted 10
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection in pursuance of the dl-
rection 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, aud upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words For the Con.
stitutiona Amendment or against the
| Constitutional Amendment, y as the voter may
elect, and Immediately after said election due
return shall be made TO the Governor of the
votes for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by said fourteenth Article
of the Constitution.
Approved April 4th, 1892.
The Polls for said election will be opened
at s a. M. and close at 6 p. m, when the bal
| lots shall be publicly counted.
| The Returning Judges are required and d.
rected TO make their returns on the second
| day Thursday following the election, to the