The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-27
Proclamation BY The Governor.
STATE OF MARYLAND.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one of Article fourteen
of the Constitution ofMaryland 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. a bill was
passed proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution, which amendment is Chapter 3l3 of
the Acts of 1892, and is as follows, to wit:
CHAPTER 3l3.
AN ACE to add an additional section to Arti-
Gle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION Be it enacted by the General As.
senabty Of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the
members of the two houses concurring, that
the following section be. and tn same is
hereby proposed, as an amendment to the
Constitution ofthis State and If adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as here
in 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 tn. election of
an additional Judge of the Supreme Bench
OF Baltimore city. ana whenever provision
is so made by the General Assembly, there
~
another Judge of the Supreme Bench of Bal.
timore city, who shall be subjectto the same
Institutional provisions. hold his office for
the same term of years, receive the same COM
pensation, and have he same powers as aye,
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 by laws, or the
Supreme Bench by its rules, for requiring
causes In any of the courts of Baltimore
city 10 be tried before the Court without n
jury. unless the litigants some one of them
shalt 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 en-
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted by the ou-
hortfy aforesaid, That the foregoing section
hereov proposeu 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 direction 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 shall be written
or printed the words "For the Constitutional
Amendm emit" or"Against the Con stitutional
Amendment" as the voter may elect. and
Immediately after said election due return
snail be made to the Governor of the votes
for and against said proposed amendment. as
directed by said fourteenth Article of the
Constitution.
Approved A pril 18th, 1892
We hereby certify that the aforegoing 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 hereinbefore described bill, or Act of
the General Assembly, proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of Maryland, be
pu 'lished once week for at least three
months IN two newspapers published in each
county in the 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 1893; at
winch said election the proposed amendment
lo'esaid vii! be submitted 10 the legal and
qnallhed voters Of Maryland for adoption or
rejection.
Given under my hand
r,r and the Great Seal OF Mary
land. at the city of Annap-
amman s,. OILS ON the 18th day of July
FA'- in the year OF our Lord
OF eighteen hundred an
ninety three and of the In
MARYLAND. dependence of the United
~--- states, the one hun lred
and seventeenth.
FRANK BROWN.
By the Governor.
VIM L. BRANTLY,
Secretary Of state.