The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-11-02
Proclamation BY The Governor
STATE OF MARYLAND.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

WHEREAS, Section one OF Article fourteen
of the Constitution of Maryland makes 1t the
duty Of the Governor to order the 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 Maryland a bill was
passed proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution, which amendment is Chapter 3l3 of
the Acts Of 1892, and is as follows. to witt
CHAPTER Sl3.
AN ACT to add an additional section to ATti-
Gle four Of the Constitution OF this State,
SECTION Be Il enacted by the General As
se,nbiy Of Maryland. Three .fifths of all the
members of the two houses concurring that
the following section be- and tn same is
hereby proposed, as an amendment to the
Constitution ofthis State; and II adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as here
in 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 II may think the same proper and
expedient, provide bv 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. Bal
tImore city, who shall be subject to the same
constitutional 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. OF
laws Of this State for the Judges of said Su-
preme Bench Of Baltimore city, and the Gen.
eral 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 q
jury, unless the litgants or some one of them
shalt within such reasonable time or times,
as may be prescribed. eject to have their
causes tried before jury. And the General
Assembly may reapportion, change or en-
large the jurisdiction of the several courts in
said city.
SEC. 2. And be IL FURTHER enacted, On Tie 0u-
hority aforesaid, That the foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution shall be, at tne next general
election to be held in this Estate, submitted
TO the legal and qualified vo,ers thereof Tor
their adoption or rejection in pursuance of
the direction contained in Article fourteen of
the Constitution of tSis State; and at the
said general election the vote on said proposed
ballot and upon each ballot shall be written
or printed the words "For the Constitutional
Amendment" oil" Against the Constitutional
Amendment" as the voter may elect. and
Immediately after said election due return
shall he made to the Governor Of the votes
for and against said proposed amendment, as
directed by said fourteenth Article of the
Constitution.
Approved April ith, 1892
. We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy OF an Act of the General Assem-
bly, OF Maryland, passed January Session, 1892
w. q. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates
Now. therefore, I, Frank Prown, Governor
of Maryland do hereby order and direct that
the said hereinbefore described blll or Act of
the General Assembly proposing an amend
mcnt to the Constitution Of Maryland, be
pu Ihshed once week for at least three
months in two news papers published in each
county in the stale. if so many are therein
published, and ia three newspapers in the
city Of Baltimore, before the next ensuing
general election, which will be held on Tues
day, the seventh day Of November. 1893; at
which said election the proposed amendment
Aforesaid Will De submitted to the legal and
qualified voters of Maryland for adoption or
rejection.
Given under my hand
and the Great Seal of Mary
THvi land. at the city of Annap-
...u 49, oils on the 18th day of July,
"i'HAi DEAL in the year of our Lord,
or eighteen hundred al d
ninety-three, and Of the In
MARYLAND. dependence of the United
States, the one hundred
and seventeenth.
FRANK BROWN.
~ the Governor,
WG. T. BBAHTLY,
GSaeSaATy OSoAats.