Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1897-09-17
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at the January session in tn,
year eighteen hundred and ninety of thu
General Assembly of Maryland bill wa
passed proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of the State by adding an addition
al section to Article fifteen thereof, to bt
known as Section eleven of said Article
which said bill and amendment are in tn,
words following, to wit
CHAPTER 459.
AN ACT TO amend the Constitution Of tn,
state by adding an additional Section tC
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 concurrng,) 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, it 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 Stale, shall be made according to merit
and htness, TO he ascertained as far as prac-
ticable by examination, which shall be COM
petitive, except appointments which are 81 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 In this State,
submitted to The legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in pur-
suauce 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 upoL each ballo
used al said election shall be printed, after
the lis, 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, OF
against the Constitution 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, I, 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 copy
of said bill! proposing said constitutional
amendment be published in at least two news
papers in each county, where so many ma y
be published, and where not more than one
may be published, then in tina; newspaper,
and in three newspapers in the City of Bal til
more, one of which shall be in the German
language, once week for at least three
months preceding the next ensuing general
held on Tuesday, the Second day OF Novem-
Der, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, } at
which election the said proposed smendmen Mt
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
[ Great Seal Done at the City of Anuap-
+ of oils on the first day of July,
| Maryland in the year of our Lord eight
-~--- cen hundred and ninety-seven
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
By order Of the Governor:
RICHARD DALLAM,
july 30-3m Secretary of State