Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1897-09-10
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at the January session In the
year eighteen hundred aud ninety-six of the
General Assembly of Maryland a bill was
passed proposing an amendment to the Goa.
stitution Of the State by adding an addition
al section to Article fifteen thereof, to be
known as Section eleven of said Article
which said bill and amendment are 10 the
words following, to wit:
CHAPTER 459.
An Act TO amend the Constitution OF The
State by adding an additional Section to
Article fifteen thereof to be known as Sec
lion eleven of said Article
SECTION / Be it enacted by the Genera
Assembly Of Maryland, (three-ffths of all
the members Of the House concurring, Thai
the following additional section be, and the
same hereby is, proposed as az amendment
70 the Constitution Of this State and, il
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, it shall stand and
be known as Section eleven OF Article fifteen
Of said Constitution
IL. Appointments in the Civil service OF
the State, 10 the municipalities aud counties
OF the State, shall be made according to merit
and fitness, 10 be ascertained as far as prac-
ticable by examination, which shall be COM
petitive, except appointments which are 50 b.
Ject TO confirmation by the Senate, and the
General Assembly shall pass all such laws as
may be necessary more fully 10 carry into
effect the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. Aud be it Further Enacted by
the Authority Aforesaid, That the foregoing
section, hereby proposed az an amendment TO
the Constitution of this State shall be, at
the next general election held 10 this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in pur-
suance OF the directions contained in Article
fourteen of the Constitution Of this State,
and at the said general election the vote on
said proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
used at said election shall be printed, after
the list OF Candidates, the question concern
ing the adoption or rejection Of said proposed
constitutional amendment, SO that each voter
at such election can designate thereon in the
manner prescribed by law, whether his vote
10 "For the Constitutional Amendment" OIL
Against the Constitut ional Amendment" az
be shall elect, and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the Gov
ernor of the State of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by SAID
fourteenth article of the Constitution.
Approved, April 4th, 1896.
NO" therefore, !, LLO1D LOW NDES
Governor OF the State Of Maryland, in pur
suance of the provisions of Section one o.
Article fourteen of the Constitution Of tn
State, do hereby order and direct that copy
of said bill proposing said constitutions
amendment be published in at least two news
papers in each county, where so many ma
be published, and where not more than on,
may be published, then in that newspaper
and in three newspapers in the City OF Bali
more, one of which shall be in the German
language, once a week for at least thre
months preceding the next ensuing genera
election, (which said general election will b,
held on Tuesday, the Second day OF Novem
Der, eighteen hundred and ninety seven } .
which election the said proposed amendmen
shall be submitted, in the form aud manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, to thu
qualified voters of the State for adoption o.
rejection.
The | the Great Seal of Maryland.
Great Seal Done at the City of Annap.
of oils on the first day of July
Maryland in the year of our LORD eight
$1,000 cen hundred and nine, y-seven
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
By order OF the Governor:
RICHARD DALLAM,
july 3O-3m Secretary OF State