Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-09-09

WHEREAS at the January session inc
the year eighteen hundred and ninety
six OF the General Assembly of Mary.
land 4 bill was passed proposing ank
amendment to the Constitution Of thek
State BY adding an additional section To-
Article fifteen thereof, to be known a.
Section eleven Of said Article which.
said bill and amendment are In the ,Eorslss
following. TO wit:
CHAPTER 80.
Az Acr 10 amend the Constitution Of
the State by adding an additional See.
ton to article fifteen thereof TO be know,s
rs Section eleven of said Article.
SECTION 1. Be 1T EwAcrrD M nm
GENERAL ASSEMBLY or MARYLANn.
three fifths of all the members az tht
House concGrringl, That the following
additional section be, and the same here.
by is, proposed as On amendment TO tho
Constitution of this State: and, IL adoptt
Ell by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, il shall stand
and be known IS Section eleven. of Ara
ticie fifteen of said Constitution:
IL. Appointments in the Civil service.
Of the State, in the municipalities ana
counties Of the State, shall be made &c.
cording to merit and fitness. TO be ascer.
tanned rs far as practicable, by examines
tiOn, which shall be competitive, exceet'
appointments which are subject to con-
firmation by the Senate, AID the Generals
Assembly shall pass ali such laws as mayt
be necessary more fully 10 carry into ef-
feet the provisions Of this section.
SECTION 2. AND BE 1T FURTHER
ENACTED BY THE Authority AIaoEE- :
SAID, That the foregoing section, here !
by proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this Stats shall be, at the
next general election held in this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified yo-
tiers thereof for their adoption or reject
ion, in pursuance of the directions con
tanned in Article fourteen of the Con
stitution of this State and at the said
general election the vote on said propO-
sed amendment To the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot used
at said election shall lie printed, after
the list of candidates, the question con.
corning the adoption OF rejection of said
proposed constitutional amendment. so
that each voter at such election can de-
signate thereon in the manner prescribed
by law, whether his vote is "For the
Constitutional Amendraent," or 4 gainst
the Constitutional Amendment" as he
shall elect, and Immediately after said
1 eitEtlbu uuc TeluTn S1sill DC made fD the
Governor of the State of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment. as di-
rected by said fourteeath article OF the
Constitution.
Approved, April 4, 1896.
Now THEREFORE,, ] LLOYD LowSpYs
Governor of the State of MARYLAND. i'm
pursuance of the provisions of Section
one of Article fourteen of the Constitu-
tion of the State, do hereby order and
direct that copy of said bin proposing
said constitutional amendment be pub
lished in at least two newspapers in each
| county, where so Inauy may be pub
lished, and where aot more than one
may be published. then in that newspa.
per, and in three newspapers in the City
OF Baltimore, one ,yt which shall be in
the German language, once week for
at least three months preceding the next
ensuing general election, which said gen
eral election will lg. held on Tuesday.
the Second day Of November, eighteen
hundred and ninety at which
election the said proposed amendment
shall be submitted, Ia. the form and man
ner prescribed by the General Assembly.
TO the qualified voters of the State for
adoption or rejectioai.
- Given under MY
hand and the Great