Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1893-11-03
PROCLAMATION
BY THE
G O " e r N O r.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTvR DEPARTMENT.
Annapolis, July 10, 1893.


WnERRAs, Section one of Article fourteen
of the Constitution of Maryland makes il the
duty of the Governor to order the publica.
ton in certain newspapers to be designated
by him, of any bill, or bills, passed propos-
ing any amendments to the said Constlu.
lion and
WHEREAS, At the January Session, 1892,
of the General Assembly Of Maryland, bill
was passed proposing an amendment to the
Constitution, which amendment is Chapter
3l3 of the Acts of 1899, and is as follows, Ia
witt
CHAPTER sI3.
AN ACT TO add an additional section TO Ar
ticle four OF the Constitution of this State.
SECTION |. Be 1t enacted. 6y the General
assembly Of Maryland, Three-tifths of all the
members OF the two houses concurring, that
the following section be, and the same is
hereby proposed, as an amendment to the
Constitution of this 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, rs
often as 1t 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 constitutions
al 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 Baltimore 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 be-
fore the Court without a jury, unless the lit
igants or some one OF them shall within such
reasonable time or times, as may be pre-
scribed, elect to have their causes tried be-
fore jury. And the General Assembly may
reapportion, change or enlarge the jutisdic-
ton Of the several courts in said city.
Sac. 2. And be 1t further endcted, By tho
authority qto,esdid, 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
Constitutional Amendment" or against
the Constitutional Amendment, as the voter
may elect, and Immediately after said cleo
ton due return shall be made to the Gov
ernOr Of the votes for and against said
proposed amendment, as directed by said
fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 4th, 1892.
We hereby certify that the aforegong Is u
correct copy OF an Act OF the General As
semby Of Maryland, passed January Session.
1892.
W. G.. PURNE ELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk Of the House of Delegates.
Now, therefore, | Frank Brown, Governor
Of Mary land, 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
published once week for at least three
months in two newspapers published in each
county In this State, II 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 amend
ment aforesaid will be submitted to the legal
and qualified voters of Maryland for adop-
ton or rejection.
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