The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-10-21
Oehm's Acme Hall,
DRoCLAMAPIoN BY THE Gov
Il 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 an amendmenttot the Consti
tuition, which amendment is Chapter BIB OF
the Acts of 1892, and is as follows, to wit:
CHAPTER 3I3.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Ar
ticle four of the Constitption Of this State.
SRoTI0E /. Be il snactsq 5y the General
Assembly of Maryland, Three tftbs 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 Constr
tuition of tLis State and il 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 the same proper and
| expediept, provide by law for the election OF
an additional Judge ofthe 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 ano the
city, who shall be subject to the same copsti-
tutional provisions, hold his Office for the
same term OF years, receive the same com
peusation, 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.
/ eraf Assembly may provide bylaws, or the
Supreme Bench BY its rules, igr requiring
causes IN any of the courts of BaltiIhote 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 reapporlion, change or enlarge the jqrlsr
dietiop of the several courts in said city.
Size. .. And be II further enacted, dg the
authority aforesaid, That the foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendmentla la 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 d.
rec,ion contained in Article fourteen of the
1 Constitution of this State and at the said
general election the Yots on said proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution shall he by
ballot. and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words ''FoF the Con.
stitut;onal Amendment or Against the
| constitutional Amendment as the voter may
| elect. and Immediately after said election due
return shall be made 10 the Governor of the
votes for and against said proposed amend-
ment, as directed by said fourteenth Article
of the Constitution.
Approved April 4th, 1899.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct COPY Of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, pasged January Session.
io 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 hereipEefpre described bill, or Act
of the General Assembly. proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of Maryland,
be published once week for at legsi three
months in two newspapers published in each
county in this State, it 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.
IrzEN Given under my hand and the Great
Hn&H Seal of Maryland, at the city of An
napolis. on the Eineteenib day of July, in the
year of our Lord, eighteen hanared and nine
ty-tiree, and Of the Independence OF the
United States, the one hundred and seven
teenth. FRANK BROWN.
By the Governor,
WM. 7. BRASTLy,
Secretary Of State. July % lot
1HAS. e. FINK.