Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-10-27
PROCLAMATION.

| WHEREAS At a session Of the General
| w Assembly of Maryland, begun and
held In the City Of Annapolis on the 9Th day
OF January, 1898, bill was passed propos-
ing an Amendment To the Constitution Of the
state by adding new section to Article four
thereof, TO be known as Section 81 A, which
said Bill and Amendment are 10 the words
following to wit:
CHAPTER 1873.
AN ACT TO amend the Constitution OF NARY
land by adding new Section to Articl.
Four.
SECTION l. Be II enacted by the Geners,
Assembly Of haryla three-fifths of eli the
members of both houses cOncurring, That
the following section be aud the same 10 here.
by proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitution Of the State Of Maryland, and il
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as hereinafter provided, the same
shall stand as an additional section 10 Article
Of said Constitution, to follow Section 81
and to be known a. Section 3lA.
81 A. In addition to the sum Of Ave hun
dred dollars, which by the preceding Sec
ton the Mayor and City Council Of Balti-
more is authorized to pay to each Of the
Judges OF the Supreme Bench Of Baltimore
city, the said Mayor and City Council OF
Baltimore 10 further authorised to pay each
OF said judges annually q sum not exceeding
h'teen hundred dollars, provided that the
same or any part thereof, being once grant
ed shall not be diminished during the con-
tinuance Of said judges in office.
SECTION 2. And be 1t further enacted BY
the authority aforesaid, That the said fore.
going section hereby proposed as an amend.
ment to the Constitution shall be. At m.
next general election to be held in this State.
submitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof, for their adoption OF rejection In
pursuance OF the directions contained In
Article IA Of the Constitution Of this State
and Of the said general el ecton the vote on
said proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each bsllo,
there shall be written or printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment" and
Against the Constitutional Amend meut.I'
so That the voter may elect aud immedi-
aiely after said election due return shall be
MADE 10 the Governor Of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as directed
by the said fourteenth article of the Const
tuition.
Approved April o, 1898.
Now, therefore, | Lloyd Lowndes, Gov
ernor OF the State Of Maryland, In pursuance
OF the provisions Of Section one of Article
fourteen OF the Constitution of the State. do
hereby order and direct that q COPY of said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
ment be published in At least two uewspa.
pers in each county, where so many may be
published, and where not more than one
may be published, then 10 that Newspaper.
and In three newspapers In the city of Balti
more, one OF which shall be in the German
language, once q week for at least three
months preceding the next ensuing general
election which said general election will be
held on Tuesday, the seventh day Of Novem-
Der, eighteen hundred and ninety nine. \ At
which election the said proposed amendmen,
shall be submitted, 10 the form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly. 10 The
qualified voters Of the State Tor adoption a
rejection.
Given under my hand
~C~~~ and the Great Seal of |
tbs GREAT Maryland
1 SEAL OF Done At the city Of An
| MAINLAND. napOlis on the sth day Of
~~ July, In the year OF GU
Lord, eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
BY order Of the Governor:
GEORGE K. LOWEREE.
July 2l.ie Secretary Of State.