The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-08-07
Proclamation

WHEREAS mt the January session in the YEAR
eighteen hundred and nintty-siX of the Gem
eral Assembly of Maryland Il bin was PASSED
proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the State by adding an additional! 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 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 Section
eleven of said Article.
SECTIONl BE ii enacfcd urine General lsscmJIy
Of haryidnG threc-hfths of all the men hcrs of
the House concurring), That the f. owing
additional section be- and the same ,rrby
is. proposed rs an amendment TO the ,rstiL
tuition of this State; and. if adoptc0 g.. the
legal ana qualified voters thereof :. herein
provided. it shall stand and he know rs Sec
ton eleven. of Article fifteen OF sai.. Co.lati-
tuition:
IL. Appointments in the Civil Service of
the state, in the municipalities and counties
of the State shall be ...adr according Ia III rit
| ana iltness, TO be ascertaincd us far as prac-
tlcablc by examination, which snail be COM
petltlVc, except appointments which are sub
| Iect TO confirmation by the Senate. and the
General Assembly shall pass all such laws as
| may be necessary more fully to carry into
| effect the provisions of this section.
| SECTIoN2. Ind be il Further, Enacted Jy The
authority Gtorescid That the for, going 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 voters thereof for
| their adoption or rejection. in pursuance 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 10 the Constitution shall be by
ballot land upon each ballot uscdnt said election
shall be printed, after the lists OF candidates,
| the question concerning the adoption or re-
| lection of said proposcf constitutional amend
ment, so that each voter ut such election can
| designate thereon in the manner prescribed
10y law, whether his vote is For the CunstitlI-
| tiuuul Amendment or against the COnsti-
tutional Amendment rs he shall elect and
| Immediately after said election due return
| shall he made to the Governor of the State OF
| the vote iO' and against said proposed
| amendment. rs directed by said fourteenth
| article OF the Constitution.
Approved April 4tn. lS!G.
Now THLREFoRE, ], LLOYD LowNpEs, Gov
!
of the provisions of Section one of Article
fourteen of the Constitution of the State do
hereby order and direct that Il copy of said
bill proposing said constitutional amend
ment be published in at least two newspapers
in each county, where so many may be pub
lished, and where not more than one may be
published, then in that newspaper, and in
three newspapers in the City of Baltimore.
one of which shall be in tn" German language
once week for at least three months pre-
c"ding the next ensuing general election,
(Which said general election will be held on.
TUESDAY. the Second day of November eight
cen hundred and NINETY seven, at which
election the said proposed an cndment shall
be submitted. in the form and manner Pre-
scrihcd by the General Assembly to the
qualified voters of the State for adoption on
rejection.