The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-10-06
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, at the January Session. 1892 of
the General Assembly of Maryland, a bill was
passed proposing an amendment TO the Consti-
tuition, which amendment is Chapter 313 of
the Acts of 1892, and is as follows to wit:
CHAPTER 313
AN ACT to add an additional section to Arti-
Gle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION 1. Be IL enacted By the General assem-
6ly Of Maryland, Three-fifths of allthe members
of the two houses concurrng, 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 rs it may think the same proper and ex-
pedient, 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 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 a jury. And the Gen.
eral Assembly may reapportion, change or en-
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
SEC. .. And be IL further enacted By the auth0r7-
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 fourtesn 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 utter
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 aforegong 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, 1, Frank Brown, Governor
of Maryland, do hereby order and direct that
the said herenbefore described bill, or Act of
the General Assembly, proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of Maryland, be pub
lished once 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 elec.
ton, which will be held on Tuesday, the sew
enth 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
Given under my hand and
THE the Great Seal of Maryland
ut the city of Annapolis, OIL
| dhEAISEAL the 10th day of July, in the
| OF year of our Lord, eighteen
| hundred and ninety three
| MARY LAND and of the independence OF
| the United States, the one
| hundred and seventeenth.
| FRANK BROWN.
| BY the Governor,
| WIN. T. BRAHTLEY,
Ganrofarv of State OSiu