The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-21
Proclamation BY The Governor.
STATE OF MARYLAND.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one of Article fourteen
of the Constitution of Maryland makes 1t 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 3d.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Arti-
Gle four Of the Constitution OF this State.
SECTION Be enacted by the General As
sembty 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 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 Bal
tlmore city, who shall be subject to the same
constitutional 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 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 litigants or 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, ?. And be ii further enacted, By the au-
hority aforesaid, That the foregoing section
hereby proposed 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 Tor
their adoption or rejection in pursuance of
the direction contained in Article fourteen of
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
Amendment" 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 amendment, as
a taI ~
Constitution.
Approved April 4th, 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, 1, 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 olished once a 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
which said election the proposed amendment
afo esaid will be submitted to the legal and
qualified voters of Maryland for adoption or
rejection.
Given under my hand
and the Great Seal of Mary
ihh land. at the city of Annap-
cpE,r sD., oils on the 18th day of July,
'AAA SEAL in the year OF our Lord
or eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, and ofthe In
MARYLAND. ! dependence OF the United
States, the one hundred
and seventeenth.
FRANK BROWN.
By the Governor,
WIZ. T. BRAKTLY,
Secretary ofState.