Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-08-25
Proclamation BY tIIe Governor,

CTATE OF MARYLAND.
- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Where's, Section one OF Article fourteen of
the Constitution Of MARYLAND .-akes II the du-
" OF the Governor TO order the publication in
certain newspapers 70 be designated By him,
Of sRy bill, or bills, passed proposing any
amendments 10 the said Con, ,iiulion; and
Where's. 81 the Jar nary Session, 1892, OF
the General Assembly Of Maryland, a hill was
passed proposing al amendment 70 the Con-
stftntionr which amendment 10 Chapter 1913 Of
the Acts OF 1892, and is as follows, 70 wit;
CHAPTER 3i5.
AN ACT to add an additional section 10 Ar
iicle fourof the Constitution Of this State
Section Be Il enacted BY tie General A.
st'aCiy u Aarylazd, Three ffths Of all the
members OF the two houses concurring that the
iolloHisg section be, and TIE same is hereby
proposed, ss an amendment TO the COEstitn-
ton Of this State; and II adopted BY the legal
and qualified voters thereof, us herein provid-
ed, the sane shall snpercede and stand in the
Place OF Sector thiriy-nine Of Article four Of
said Constitution
Sec 80. The General Assembly shall as Of
ten as It NAV link the same proper and ex-
pedieni, provide by law for the election OF an
additional Judge Of the Supreme Bench Of Bal
timore CIV, and, whenever provision IL 50
made by the General Assembly, there shall be
elected by the rnters Of said city another Judge
Of the Supreme Bench Of Baltimore CITY, who
shall be subject 10 the same constitutional
provisions, h0lI bic " &c for the same term Of
years receive the same compensation, and have
the same powers 10 are, or shall De provided
os the Constitution or laws OF this State, for
the Judges Of said Supreme Bench OF Balti-
more 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 before the court
without ju y, unless the ltigants or some
one OF them shall within such reasonable time
or times, as may be prescribed, elect to have
their causes tried before jury, and the Cen
eral Assembly may re-apportion, change or en-
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
Sec. 2. ARd be IT further enacted By The du-
Moriiy Gforesaid, That the foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con-
sGtuiion shall be, at the next general election
10 be held in this State, submitted 10 the lie
gal and qualified voters thersoffor their adop-
ton or rejection In pursuance Of the direction
contained in Article fourteen of the Constitu-
ton OF this 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
ment," as the voter may elect. and immedi-
stely after said election due return shall be
made to the Governor Of the amendment, as
directed by said fourteenth Article OF the
Constitution
We hreby 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,
Secretary of Senate.
CARLTON SNAPPER,
Chief Clerk OF the House OF Delegates.
| Now, therefore, |, Frank Brown Governor
of Marylsnd 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 in
two newspapers published in each county in
this State, if so many are therein published,
and in three newspapers in the city OF Balti-
more, before the next ensuing general election,
which will be held on Tuesday, the seventh
day of November, 1897; at which said election
the proposed amendment aforesaid will be SUBJ
mitted to the legal and qualified voters Of
Maryland for the adoption or rejection
.......-.......-.........: Given under my hand
/: and the Great Seal OF
THE Maryland, at the citv Of
GREAT SEAL Annapolis. en- the l9th
OF day Of July, in the year
MARYLAND. of our Lord, eighteen
''.'.'"'.........."hundred and ninety
three, and of the Independence of the United
States, the one hundred and seventeenth
FRANK BROWN.
By the Governor,
WIN. T BRANTLY, Secretary of State.
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