The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-09-09
PROCLAMATION 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 anamendmentto to the Consti.
tuition, which amendment is Chapter 3l3 of
the Acts of 1892, and is as follows, to witt
CHAPTER sl3.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Ar
ticle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION /. BE it enacted 6y The General
assembly Of Maryland, Three fifths 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 Consti-
tuition 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 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 Baltimore
city, who shall be subject to the same consti-
tutional 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 bylaws, 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 General Assembly
may reapportion, change or enlarge the juris-
diclion of the several courts in said city.
Sec. 2. And be 1t further enacted, By the
authority aforesaid, That the foregoing sec
ton 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 di-
rection 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 there shall be
written or printed the words "For the Con-
stitutional 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 proposed amend
ment, as directed by said fourteenth Article
of the 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,