The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-09-11

eighteen hundred and nnety-six of the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland bill 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 Ar
ticle fifteen thereof, to be known as Section
eleven of said Article.
SECTION l. Be 1T ENACTED BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, (three fifths of all
the members of the House concurring, That
the following additional section be, and the
same hereby is, proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution of this State; and it
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
II. 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 practi-
cable by examination, which shall be com
petitive, 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.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT 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 aad 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 to the Constitu-
ton shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
used at said election shall be printed, after the
lists of candidates, the question concerning
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 Constitutional Amendment as
he shall elect, and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the Gov
ernor ofthe State of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by said
fourteenth article of the Constitution.
Approved, April 4th, 1896.
Now THHREFoRE, |, 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
may be published, then in that newspaper,
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-
ber, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, at
which election the said proposed amendment
shall be submitted. III the form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, to the
qualified voters Of the State for adoption or
rejection.
: : Given under my hand and
THE the Great Seal of Maryland.
*GREAT sEAI+ Done at the City of Annap-
OF oils on the first day of July in
MARYLAND. the year of our Lord eigh-
= = = teen hundred and ninety
seven.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
By order of the Governor
RICHARD DALLAM,
july 81 lat Secretary of State.