Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-10-06
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PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at session of the General As
sembly Of Mas land fegun and held in thr
City Of Annapolis 90 the fifth day Of January
1898, Bill was passed proposing an Amend.
ment to the Constitution Of the State by add
ing new section to Article -Four thereof, to
be known as Section 81 A, which said Bill
aud Amendment are 10 the words following
to wit;
CHAPTER 1893. An act to amend the Con-
stitution OF Maryland by adding sew Sec
ton to Article Four
SECTION / Be it enacted by the Geueral
Assembly Of Maryland, three-ffths of all TIT
members Of both houses concurring, That tn
following section be and the same is hereb,
proposed MS m amendment TO the Constitution
Of the State Of Maryland, and If adop,ed b
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as here
isafter provided, the same shall stand as al
additional section to Article of said Consti-
tuition, to follow section 81 and to be know
as Section 81 A.
81 A. 10 addition to the sum Of Eve hun
bred dollars, which by the preceding section
the Mayor and City Council Of Baltimore J.
authorized to pay each OF the judges OF the
supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the said
Mayor and City Council OF Baltimore is further
authorized to pay 10 each Of said Judges an
aually, sum not exeeedinr fifteen hundred
iolars; provi led that the same or any part
thereof, being ouce granted shall not be dmia
lshtd during the continuance OF the said Judges
office
SECTION II Aud be it further enacted, by
the authority Aforesaid that the said iorezo-
ing section herehs proposed as an amendmei
to the Constitution shall be, at the next gen
eral election to be held in this State, submit
a -. -
for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
Of ,he directions contained in Article IA Of
the Constitution of this State; and at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be b,
pallot, 6nd upon each ballot shall, there shall
ne written or printed the words, "For thu
Constitutional Amendment and Against
he constitutional Amendment" so that The
sotet may elect; and Immediately after said
SECTION due return shall be made 10 the Cover.
nor of the vote fer and against said proposed
amendment as directed by the said fourteenth
Article OF the Constitution.
Approved Abril 9th, 1893.
Now, Therefore, | LLOYD LownSes, Cover
nor of the State Of Maryland inpursuance Of
the provisions Of Section one Of Article four
teen Of the Constitution of the State, do here
by order and direct that a copy Of the said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
ment be published in at least two newspapers
in each county, where so many may be pub.
lished aud where not more than one NAV be
published, then in that newspaper, and in
three newspapers in the CITY Of Baltimore,
one Of which shall De in the German language
once week for at least three months proceed
ing the next ensuing general election (which
said general election will Re held on Tuesday,
The seventh day Of November, eighteen hun
dreo and ninety mine, at which election th,
SAID proposed amendment shall be submitted,
in the fOrm and manner prescribed by th,
General Assembly, to the qualified voters OF
the State for adoption.