The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-08-12
BY THE GOV.
i ERNOR.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one of Article fourteen
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, bill was
passed proposing n amendmentto to the Consti.
tuition, which amendment is Chapter 3l3 of
the Acts of 1892, and is as follows, to wit:
CHAPTER 31S.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Ar
ticle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION /. BE H enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, Three fifths of all the
members of the two houses eoncurring, that
the following section be, and the same is here
by proposed, as an amendment to the Consti-
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 and
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 consti
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 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 General Assembly
may reapportion, change or enlarge the juris-
diction of the several courts in said city.
SEC. 2. 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 to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection in pursuance of the di-
rectien 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, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words "For the Con-
stitutional Amendment" or Against the
Constitutional Amendment" 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.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is u
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 hereinbefore described bill, or Act
of the General Assembly, proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of Maryland,
be published once a week for at least three
months in two newspapers published i'll 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 Tues
day, 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.
(sTSsa Given under my hand and the Great
SsGSS Seal of Maryland, at the city of An
napolis, on the Nineteenth day Of July, in the
year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and nine
ty-three, and of the Independence of the
United States, the one hundred and seven
teenth. FRANK BROWN.
BY the Governor,
WM. T. BRANTIY,
Secretary of State. July % l5t