Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-09

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w the year eighteen hundred and ninety
six of the General Assembly Of Maryland a
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
Article fifteen thereof to be known as Sec
ton eleven of said Article.
SECTION l. BE it eudctcd by the General Is
Senbiy Of WaIylond, three-tfths 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, if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof as herein
provided it shall stand and be known as Sec
ton eleven, of Article fifteen of said Con-
stltutlon:
II. Appointments in the Civil service of the
State, i'll the municipalities and counties of the
State, Shall De made according to merit and fit
ness, to b" asccrtt,ined us far as practicable by
examination, which snail be competitive, eX-
ccpt appointments which are subject to con
tirlnatlOn by the Senate, and the General As
scmbly shall pass ali such laws as may be
necessary more fully to carry into effect the
provisions of this Section.
SEXTON 9 And be it ,turthey e,.ucted on the
authority aforesaid, That the foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of this State shall be, at the
next general election held in this State, sub
United to the legal and qualified voters there
OF 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 Oh said pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution 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 con-
SututlOnal amendment, so that each voter at
such election can desig nate thereon in the
manner prescribed by law, whether his vote
is ''For the Constitutional Amendments or
Against the Constitutional 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 4th, 1896.
Now, therefore, l. LLOYD LowNDEs, Govern
or ofthe State Of Maryland, in pursuance ofthe
provisions of Section one of Article fourteen of
the Constitution of the State, do hereby order
and direct that copy of said bill proposing
sand constitutional amendment be published
in at least two newspapers in each county,
where somany may be published, 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 the German language, once week for at
least three months preceding the next en-
suing general election, (Which said general
election will he held ON Tuesday the second
day OF November, eighteen hundred and
nnety-seven,) at which election the said pro-
posed 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.
Given under MY hand ana the Great Seal
of Mary land.