The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
Proclamation by the Governor.
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, ut the January Session. 1892, of
the General Assembly OF Maryland, Il bill was
passed proposing an amendment to the Consti-
| tuition, which amendment is Chapter BIB of
the Acts of 1892 and is as follows. to wit:
CHAPTER 3d..
AN ACT to add an additional section 10 Arti-
Gle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION 1. Be ii enacted 6y TIE Gtae,ai ASSEM-
oily 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 SO. The General Assembly shall, as
often as it may think tue same proper and ex-
pedent, 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 as are, or shall be pro-
vided 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 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 Gen.
/ eral Assembly may reapportion, change or en-
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
! said city.
SEC. 2. And be Il. FURTHER enacted by the autho1s-
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 or
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 ~
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 pro-
posed amendment, as directed by said four
| teenth Article of the Constitution.
| Approved April 4th, 1892.
We hereby certify that the aforegoingi is a
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, I, Frank Brown, Governor
| of Maryland, do hereby order and direct that
| 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 sale
! election the proposed amendment aforesaid
| will be submitted to the legal and qualified
voters of Maryland for adoption or rejection
Given under my hand ant
THE the Great Seal of Maryland
| at the city of Annapolis, OF
| GhEATSEAL the 10th day of July, in the
oF year of our Lord, eighteen
] hundred and ninety-three
Y ] MARYLAND ! and of the Independence o.
! the United States, the ont
1 hundred and seventeenth.
FRANK BROWN.
j By the Governor,
81 wM. T. BRANTLEY,
Secretary of State. 2Sju