Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-08-24

OF the General Assembly OF Maryland, n
bill was passed proposing an amendment
TO the Consultation, which amendment Is
Chapter 3ls OF the Acts OF 1899, and is as
follows, % wit:
CHAPTER sis.
AN ACT TO add an additional section 70
Article four Of the Constitution of this
State.
SECTION l. ID It enacted by the Generd
Assembly Of Maryland, Three fifths of all
the members OF the two houses concurTing
that the following section be, and the same
is hereby proposed, IS an amendment d
the Constitution of this State: and if adopt.
ed by the legal and qualified voters thereof
as herein provided, the same shall super
cede and stand in the place Of Section
thirty. nine of Article four of said Constitu.
ton.
SIC. 80. The General Assembly shall
as often as il may think the same proper
and cxpedient, provide by law for the cleo
ton of an additional Judge of the So
preme Bench OF Baltimore city, and when.
ever provision Is 80 made by the General
Assembly, there shall be elected by the vo.
ters OF said city another Judge of the Su.
preme Bench of Baltimore city. who shall
be subject 10 the same constitutional pro.
visions, hold bis Office f1r the same term oil
| years, receive the same Compensation and
have the same powers as are or shall be
provided by the Constitution, or laws OF
this State, for the judges of said Supreme
| Bench Of Baltimore city, an the General
Assembly may provide by laws, or the SUI
! preme Bench by its rules, for requiring
causes in any of the courts of Baltimore
| city 10 be tried before the Court without a
| jury, unless the liIigauts or some of them
shall within such reasonable time or times,
as may be prescribed, elect 10 have their
| causes tried before a jury. And the Gen
eral Assembly may reapp1riion, change or
enlarge the jurisdicti n of the several
courts in said city.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted, By tie
authority aforesaid, That the foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment 10
the Constitution, shall b., at the next gen
eral election 10 be held in this State, sub
mitted 10 the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection in
pursuance Of the direction contained in
Article fourteen Of the Constitution of this
State; and at the said general election the
VOC on said proposed amendment TO the
| Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon
| each ballot there shall be written or print
| ed the words "FOr the Constitutional
Amendment" or Against the Constitu.
tional Amendment" as the voter may
| elect, and Immediately after said election
due return shall be made TO the Governor
of the votes tor and against said proposed
Amendment, as directed by said fourteenth
Article of the Constitution.
Approved, April 4, 1892.
We hereby certify that the aforeguing is
a correct copy of an Act of the General
Assembly OF Maryland, passed January
| Session, 1892.
w G. PURNELT.,
Secretary OF the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER.
Chief Clerk OF the House of Delegates.
Now, therefore, /, Frank Brown, Gov
ernor of Maryland, do hereby order and
direct that the said hcrcinbefore described
/ bill, or Act of the General Assembly, pro-
| posing an amendment To the Constitution
of Maryland, be published once week for
at least three months in two newspapers
! published in each county in this State, if
81 many are therein published, and in
three newspapers in the city of Baltimore,
before the next ensuing general election,
| 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 Great Seal of Ma
| ryland, at the city of An
| THE napolis, on the 18th day
| GREAT SEAL of July, in the year of our
or Lord, eighteen hundred
| | MARYLAND. and ninety three, and OF
the Independence of the
| l--| United States, the one
hundred and seventeenth.
FRANK BROWN.
BY the Governor,
WM. T. BRANTLY,
Secretary of State