The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-11-04
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Notice is hereby given To- the Judges of
Election and to the Qualified Voters Of Car
roll county, that an election will be held in
the several Election Districts and Precincts
of Carroll county, at the usual places of
holding elections, on
The first Tuesday, after the first
Monday, of November, 1898,
it being the 7th day of
said month,
For the purpose of electing
One person for Comptroller of the Treasury
! of the State of Maryland.
One person to be Chief Judge of the Fifth
Judicial Circuit of Maryland.
One person to be Associate Judge of the
Fifth Judicial Circuit of Maryland.
Four persons to represent Carroll county
in the House of Delegates of Maryland.
One person to be County Commissioner ef
Carroll county.
One person to be County Treasurer of Car
roll county.
One person to be Sheriff of Carroll county.
One person to be County Surveyor of Car
roll county.
Voters will also cast their ballots ''for'' or
against the following Constitutional
Amendment, in accordance with the follow
ing Act of the General Assembly, passed at
January Session, 1892, for amending the
Constitution of the State:
CHAPTER sIs.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Ar.
ticle four of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. BE ID enacted By the General
Assembly of Maryland, Three fifths of all the
members of the two houses eoncurring, that
the following section be, and the same is here
by proposed, as an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of this State and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof, as herein
provided, the same shall supercede and stand
in 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
expedient, provide by law for the election OF
an additional Judge Of the Supreme Bench OF
! Baltimore city, and whenever provision is so
made by the General Assembly, there shall
be elected by the voters Of said city another
Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
| city, who shall be subject to the same consti-
tutional provisions, hold his office for the
same term of years, receive the same COM
pensation, and have the same powers as are,
or shall be provided by the Constitution, or
laws of this State, for the Judges of said Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore city, and the Gen.
/ eral Assembly may prOVlue bylaws, OF Tue
Supreme Bench by its rules, for requiring
causes in any of the courts of Baltimore city
to be tried before the Court without jury,
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. And the General Assembly
may reapportion, change or enlarge the iuris
/ diction of the several courts in said city.
SEC. 2. Ind be H further enacted, By the
authority aforesaid, That the foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution shall be, at the next 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 d.
rection contained in Article fourteen Of the
| Constitution of this State and at the said
general election 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 Con
/ sttutional Amendment or against the
4 Constitutional Amendment, as the voter may
elect, and Immediately after said election due
return shall be made to the Governor of the
votes for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by said fourteenth Article
| of the Constitution.
Approved April 4th, 1892.