Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-11-03


nastpd imposing IA amendment 20 the Con.
st;ttfion. which amendment is Chapter 3l3 o.
ihelArls Of 1892. and is rs follows, TO wit:
CHAPTER 3l3.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Ar
HE fourof the Constitution Of this State
Sector Be Il enacted BY the General As.
,eviIiv Of Maryland, Three.6fIhs Of all the
members Of the Two houses concurring that the
folloving section be, and tie same Is hereby
nrsppsed. IS an amendment TO the CvEstitu-
lion of this Stale; and If adopted by the legal
and qualified voters thereof, rs herein provld-
ed lhe sLme shall sppercede and stand in the
place of Sector thirty-nine Of Article four Of
said Constitution
Sec 49, The General Assembly shall as Of
ten as il may think the same proper and ex-
pedieni, provide By law for the election Of an
additional Judge of the Supreme Bench Of Bal
tiJnore c.tv, and, whenever provision rs so
made by the General Assembly, there shall be
elerted by the voters ofsaid city another Judge
of the Supreme Bench Of Baltimore city, who
shall he subject to the same constitutional
provisions, hOl bis oe ce for the same term Of
yes.: receive the same compensation, and have
the sane pouers as are, or shall Be provided
the Judges OF said Supreme Bench OF Balti-
more city, andltbe 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 ju y, 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, aud the Gen
eral Assembly may re-apportion, change or en-
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
Sec. 2. And be II further enacted, By tie au-
thOri'y aforesaid, That the foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stituton shall be, at the next general election
TO be held 10 this State, submitted 10 the lie
gal and qualified voters thereof for their adop-
ton or rejection in pursuance OF the direction
contained in Article fourteen of the Constitu-
tion Of tbs State; and at the said general cleo
ton the vote on said proposed amendment to
the Constitution shall be by bollot. and upon
each ballot there shall be written or printed
the words "For the Constitutional Amend
ment, or against the Constitutional Amend
menL" as the voter may elect. and immedi-
ately after said election due return shall be
made to the Governor Of the amendment, as
directed by said fourteenth Article of the
Constitution
Approved April 4th, 1892.
We hrehy certify that the aforegoing ia a
correct copy of an Act Of the General Assem-
bly, Of Maryland, passed January Session, 1892.
W. G. PURNELL,
feeIctary of Senate.
CARLTON SHAFFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
New, therefore, |, Frank Brown Governor
of Maryland do hereby order and direct that
the said herein before 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 ia
two Newspapers published in each county in
This State, it so many are ther,in published,
and in three new spspers in ilp citr Of Bslti.
more, before The next ensuing general election,
which will be held on Tuesday, the seventh
LAY Of November, 1892; ct which said election
lhe proposed amendment aforesaid will bv sub
lt''' 70 the legal sni qualified voter. Of
the adoption or rejection.
-.......: Given under nv hand
and tho Great Seal Ct
MARYLAND. at the cts OF
Ia Annapolis on the 9th
day Of JGly, in The rear
Of our Lord, eighteen
hundred and nnciy.
~ndsuce Of the United
sud seventeenth
M BROWN.
stary Of State.