Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-09-09
Special Notices.
PROCLAMATION,

WHEREAS, At session of the General As.
sembly of Maryland, begun and held in the
city of Annapolis on 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
and Amendment are in the words following.
to wit:
CHAPTER 1913.
| AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary
land by adding a new Section to Article
Four.
SECrION |. BE cnactcd 6y the Gelcral
~ IS@m6ty Of -HatyidRd, Thrce-fifths of all
the members of both Houses concurring
lhat tne following Section be and the same is
nereoy proposed as an Amendment to the
constitution of the State of Maryland and if
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
theTeol, as hereinafter provided, the same
Snall stand as an additional Section to Article
Four of said Constitutions to follow Section
| 81, ana TO be known as SECTION 81 A:
81 A. In addition to the sum of five hun
dred dollars, which, by the preceding Section
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is
authorized to pay to each of the Judges of the
supreme Bench of Baltimore city, the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is furth-
er authorized to pay to each of said Judges
annually sum not exceeding fifteen hun.
dred dollars provided that the same or any
part thereof being once granted shall not be
diminished during the continuance of said
Judges in office
SECTION Il. And be il FURTHER eHactcd by the
| authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
Section hereby proposed as an Amendment
| TO the Constitution shall be, at the next gem
eral election to be held in this State, submit
ted to the legal and qualified voters thereof,
| lot their adoption or rejection, i'll pursuance
OF the directions contained in Article II of the
constitution OF this State; and at the said
| general election the vote on said propOsed
| Amendment to the Constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the words, For the Con-
Stitutonal Amendment" and against the
| Constitutional Amendment" so that the
| voter may elect; and Immediately after said
| election due return shall be made to the Gov
| erhor OF the vote for and against said proposed
Amendment, as directed by the said four
teenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 8, 1898.
Now, therefore, |, LLOYD LowNDEs, Govern
| or of the State of Maryland, in pursuance of
| the provisions OF Section One of Article Four
| teen of the Constitution of the State, do here
| by order and direct that 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 NAV be pub
lshed, then i'll that newspaper, and in three
| newspapers i'll the city of Baltimore one of
| which shall be i'll the German language once
| 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 November eighteen hundred
and nnety-nine,) at which election the said
| proposed Amendment shall be submitted, in
the form and manner prescribed by the Gen
eral Assembly, to the qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Sea |
*****x*****%** of Maryland.
*rc Done at the City of An
%"rea' sea- napolis on the 18th day of
+ OF + July, in the year Of our
| T Maryland. ( Lord eighteen hundred and
| *xxxxwx xxxxxx# ninety nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
By order of the Governor:
GEORGE f. LowEREE,
July 22-16t Secretary of State.