Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-11
CHAPTER 459.

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 /. BE it enactcd By the General is
| Seutbiy Of 4UaiYlaad, (three-tiithS Of all the
members of the House cdncurring,) 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 he made according to merit and fit
| ness, to be asccrtaincd us far AS practicable by
| examination. which shall be competitivc, cX-
| ccpt appointments which are subject to con
| iirmation by the Senate, and the General As
| scmby shall pass all such laws may he
| necessary more fully to carry into effect the
| provisions of this Section.
| SECTION >. and be ii further enacted by tie
| 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
| mitted 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 on 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 i'll the
| manner prescribed by law, whether his vote
| is For the Constitutional Amendment or
| Against the Constitutional Amendment as
ba shall immediately
| 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 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
ninety -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 NY hand and the Great Seal
of Maryland.
::# Done at the City
Il rho Il Of Annapolis on the
= c,.o., Son, :. first day Of July in
OF i: the year of our Lord
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www#w# ~ and ninety-seven.