The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-09-01
CHAPTER 313.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Arii
Gle of the ConStitiOn of this State.


| Gle of the ConsttiOn of this State.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
| ASSEMBLY of Naryland Three-tifths OF all the
members of the two houses concarring, thai
the following section be, and the same is her
by proposed, as an amendment TO the COnsti'
ution of this State: aud if adopted by the legal
aud qualified voters thereof, As herein provide
ed, the same shall supsrcede and stand in the
place of Section thirty-nide Of Article four of
said Constitution.
SEC. 80. The General Assembly shall, as
often as itmay think the same proper and tx
pedient, provide by law for the election Of
an additional Judge Of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore Bity, and whenever provision is so
made by the General Assembly. there shall be
elected by 4he voters Of said city another Judge
of the Supreme Beach OF Baltimore City, who
shall be subject to the same constitutional pro
visions, held his office far the same term OF
years, receive the same compensation, have
the same power as are, or shall be provided
oy the Constitution, or laws OF this State, for
the Judges of sad Supreme Bench OF Balti
more City, and the General Assembly may
provide by laws, or the Supreme Bench by its
rules, for requiring cauaes III amy of the courts
of Baltimore city to be tried before the Court
witeout jury, unless tha litigants some
one of them shall withio such reasonable time
or times, as may be prescribed, elect to have
their causes tried before jury. And the Gen
eral Assembly may reappoation change OF EN-
large the jurisdiction OF the several courts in
said city.
SEC. :. and be it further enacted, the
authority aforesaid, That tho foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as III amendment to the
Constitution shall be, at the 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 direction
contained in Article fourteen Of the Constltu-
ton Of this State; and at the said general cleo
ton 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 Amend
nent," or Against the Constitutional Amend
msnt," as the voter may elect, and Immediate
" after said election due return shall be- made
to The Governor 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 aforesoing is
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, L, Frank Brown, Governor
oil Marylan DO heIeoy order and direct that
the said hereinbefors described bill, or Act OF
the General Assembly, proposing al amend
ment to the Constitution Of Mary land, be pub
.ished once week for at least three months in
two newspapers publ shed in each county in
this state, il SO many are therein published,
and in three newspapers in the city Of Balti-
more, before the next ensuing general cleo
ton, which will be held on Tuesday, tn e
seventh day of November, 1893: at which said
election the proposed amendment aforesaid
will be submitted to the legal and qualified
voters of Maryland for adoption or rejection,
Given nnder my hand and
[-~~-l the great seal of Maryland,
: THE at the city Of Annapolis, on
{ GREAT SEAL ! The 10Th day of July, in the
OF )yeer of our Lord, eighteen
( MARYLAND. HUNDRED and ninety-three,
and of the Independence of
the United States, the one hundred and sew
enteen.
FRANK BROWN.
B. the Governor,
WIN. r. BRANTLY,
Secretary of Slater
July 2S-tf