Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-07-29

WHEREAS at the January session In
the year eighteen hundred and ninety
six of the General Assembly of Mary
land 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 $50.
An AcT to amend the Constitution of
the State by adding an additional Sec
ton TO article fifteen thereof. to be known
as Section eleven of said Article.
SECTION /. Be 1T ENACTED BY the
GENERAL ASSEMBLY or MARYLAND.
three fifths of all the members Of the
House concurring), That the following
additional section be, and the same here
by Is, proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State; and. If adopt
ed by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, it shall stand
and be known as Section eleven, of Ar
ticle fifteen of said Constitutions:
II. Appointments in the Civil service
of the State, in the municipalities and
counties of the State, shall be made ac-
cording to merit and fitness, to be ascer-
tanned IS far as practicable by examina-
ton, which shall be competitive, except
appointments which are subject to con-
firmation by the Senate, and the General
Assembly shall pass all such laws as may
be necessary more fully to carry into eff
feet the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. AND BE 1T FURTHER
ENACTED BY THE Authority AFoRE-
SAID, That the foregoing section, here
by 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 and qualified vo-
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 be printed. after
the list of candidates, the question con-
corning the adoption or rejection of said
proposed constitutional amendment, so
that each voter ut such election can de-
signate thereon in the manner prescribed
by law, whether his vote Ii ssFof the
Constitutional Amendment" or Against
the Constitutional Amendment" as he
shall elect, and Immediately after said
election dae return shall be made to the
Governor of the State ofthe vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as di-
rected by said fourteenth article of the
Constitution.
Approved, April 4, 1856
Now THEREFORE,, LLOYD LowNDEs,
Governor of the State of MARYLAND. in
pursuance of the provisions of Section
one of Article fourteen of the Constitu-
ton of the State, do hereby order and
direct that a copy Of said bin proposing
said constitutional amendment be pub
lished in at least two newspapers in each
county, where so many may be pub
lished, and where not moro than one
may be published, then in that newspa-
per, and in three newspapers In the City
of Baltimore, one of which shall be in
the German language, once week for
at least three months preceding the next
ensuing general election, which said gem
eral election will be held on Tuesday.
the Second day of November, eighteen
hundred and ninety-seven), ut which
election the said proposed amendment
shall be submitted, in the form and man
ner prescribed by the General Assembly,
to the qualified voters of the State for
| adoption or rejection.
Given under my
SAASNT1HAHr hand and the Great
Tha Seal OF Maryland
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