The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-08-21

WHEREAS at the January session in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety7six 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 10 Ar
ticle fifteen thereof, to be known as Section
eleven of said Article.
SECTION /. Be 1T ENACTED BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, (three. fifths of all
the members of the House coneurring, That
the following additional section be, and the
same hereby is, proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution of this States and, il
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
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 ascertaned as far as pracii-
cable by examination, which shall be com
petitive, except appointments which are sub
lect to confirmation by the senalG, and The
General Assembly shall pass all snoh laws as
may be necessary more fully To carry into
effect the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. 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 aad qualified
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 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.
Nov THEREFORE,, /, LLOYD LowxDEs,
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, al
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 OF
rejection.
Given under my hand anC
THE the Great Seal of Maryland
@GREAT sEAL* Done at the City Of Annap
or Il oils on the FIRST day of July il
MARYLAND the year of Our Lord eigb
= teen hundred and ninety
seven.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
By order of the Governor
RICHARD DALLAM,
july 81 lat Secretary of State.