Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1897-10-22
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at the January session in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-six of the
General Assembly of Maryland bill was
passed proposing an amendment to the Con.
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 in the
words following, to witt
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 il enacted by the Genera
Assembly of Maryland, (three-ffths of all
the members Of the House concurring, Tina
, the following additional section be, and the
same hereby is, proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution of this State and, il
adopted by the legal aud qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, Il shall stand and
be known as Section eleven Of Article fifteen
of said Constitution
IL. Appointments in the Civil service Of
the State, in the municipalities and counties
OF the State, shall be made according to merit
and fitness, to be ascertained as far as prac-
ticable by examination, which shall be COM
petitive, except appointments which are sub
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 Q. And be 1t Further Enacted by
the Authority Aforesaid, That the foregoing
section, hereby proposed as an amendment to
| the Constitution of this State shall be- at
the next general election held In this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified voter
thereof for their adoption or rejection, In pur
suance of the directions obtained in Article
fourteen of the Constitution of this State
! and at the said general election the vote or
said proposed amendment to the C0nstitu
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
is "For the Constitutional Amendment" or
against the Constitu tional Amendment" as
he 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 9TH. 1896.
Now therefore, /, LLOYD LoWNDES,
Governor of the State Of Maryland, In pur-
suance of the provisions of Section one of
Article fourteen of the Constitution OF the
State, do hereby order and direct that a copy
of said bill proposing said constitutional
amendment be published in at least two news
papers in each county, where so many may
be published, and where not more than one
and in three newspapers in the City of Balti-
more, one Of which shall be in the German
language, once week for at least three
months preceding the next ensuing general
election, (Which said general election will be
held on Tuesday, the Second day Of Novem-
Der, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,) at
which election the said proposed amendment
shall be submitted, in the form and manner
prescribed BY the General Assembly, to the
qualified voters of the State for adoption or
rejection.
The the Great Seal of Maryland.
lGreai Seal Done at the City of Annap-
of oils on the first day of July,
| Maryland I in the year Of our Lord eight.
-~--- eon hundred and nineiy-seven.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
BY order OF the Governor
RICHARD DALLAM, ..#
july 3O-3m Secretary of State.