Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-31

wv HEREAS, AT the January session in
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 enacted by the General As
senbiy Of MaGyland, (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. 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-
sttution:
H. Appointments in the Civil service of the
state IN the Municipalities and counties of the
state, shall be made according to merit ard fit
ness, to be aSccrtained as far aS practicable by
examination. which shall be competitive, cx-
cept appointments which are subject to con
tirmation by the Senate, and the General As
sembly shall pass all such laws as may be
necessary more fully to carry into effect the
SECTION 2. Amd be 1t .t'u,ther enacted By tile
authority aforesaid, That the foregoing sec
tion hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of this State shall be, at the
next general election held in this State, sub.
mltted 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-
stitutiOnal 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.
Now, therefore, l, LLOYD LowNDEs, Govern
or ofthe State of Maryland, in pursuance of the
provisions of Section one ofArticle 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 newspapers 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 Baltimore, one of which shall be
in the German language, once a week for at
least three months preceding the next EN-
suing general election, (Which said general
election will be 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 and the Great Seal
of Maryland.