The aegis & intelligencer., 1893-09-15
Proclamation by the Governor.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one of Article fourteen
of the Constitution of Maryland makes it the
duty of the Governor to order th he publication
in certain newspapers to be designated by him,
of any bill, or bills, passed proposing any
amendments to the said Constitution: and
WHEREAS, at the January Session, 1892, of
the General Assembly Of Maryla nd, a bill was
passed proposing an amendment to the Consti-
tuition, which amendment is Chapter 313 of
the Acts of 1892 and is as follows, to wit:
CHAPTER 313.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Arti-
Gle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION !. Be ii enacted By the Gtnerdl Assem-
oily Of Maryland, Three-fifths of all the members
of the two houses concurring, that the follow
ing section be, and the same is hereby propos-
ed, as an amendment to the Constitution of
this State; and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided,
the same shall supercede and sta nd i'm the place
of Section thirty-nine of Article four of SAID
Constitution.
SEC. 80. The General Assembly shall, as
often as it may think the same proper and ex-
pedient, provide by law for the election of an
additional Judge of the Supreme Bench of Bal
by the General Assembly, there shall be elect
ed by the voters of said city anC ther Judge of
the Supreme Bench of Baltim ore city, who
shall be subject to the same constitutional
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 Bal
.itN md fha ,lrr
provide 10y laws, or the Supreme Bench by its
rules for requiring causes in anv of the courts
of Baltimore city to be tried before the Court
without jury, unless the litit;ants 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 Gen.
eral Assembly may reapportion. change or en-
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
SEC. 2. And bel FURTHER enacted By The author1-
ty aforesaid That the foregoing section hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
| shall be, Mt the next general election to be
| held in this State, submitted tc, the legal and
| qualified voters thereof for their adoption OF
| rejection in pursuance of the direction con.
tanned in Article fourtet II of the Constitution
| of this State; and at the said general election
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| 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 aftel
| said election due return shall be made to the
| Governor of the votes for and against said pro-
| posed amendment, as directed by said four
| teenth Article of the Constitution.
| Approved April 4th, 1892.
We hereby certify that the aforegong 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, I. Frank Brown, Governo
| of Maryland, do hereby order and direct tina
| the said herenbefore described bill, or Act o.
the General Assembly, proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of Maryland be pub
| lished once week for at least three month
in two newspapers published in each count,
| in this State, if so many are therein published
| and in three newspapers in the city of Balti
| more, before the next ensuing general elec
ton, which will be held on Tuesday, the sew
enth day of November, 1898; at which sal
4 election the proposed amendment aforesai
will be submitted to the legal and qualifie
voters of Maryland for adoption or rejection
| Given under my hand an
| THE the Great Seal of Maryland
: at the city of Annapolis, o
GhEAIsEAL the 10Th day of July, in tn
| OF year of our Lord, eightee
hundred and ninety-thre
! MARY LAND and of the Independence q
the United States, the on
hundred and seventeenth.
+ FRANK BROWN.
, BY the Governor,
WIN. T. BRANTLEY,
/ Secretary of State. 2Sju