Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-10-07
PROCLAMATION.

Whereas at a session of the General
Assembly of Maryland begun and held
in the city of Annapolis on the fifth day
of January. 1899. Bill was passed pro-
posing an Amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the State by adding new sec
ton TO Article Four thereof, to be known
as Section 81 A, which said Bill and
Amendment are in the words following,
to wit:
CHAPTER 1893.
An act to amend the Constitution Of
Maryland by adding new section to
Article Four:
Section |. Be il enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, three-f ifths
of all the members of both houses con-
curing. That the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Maryland, and if adopted by
legal and qualified voters thereof, as
hereinafter provided, the same shall
stand as an additional section to Article
4 Of said Constitution, to follow Section
81 and to be known as Section 3lA.
3IA. In addition to the sum of five
hundred dollars, which by the proceed.
ing 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 further author
lied to paw TO each of said judges
annually sum not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars. provided that the same
or any part thereof, being once granted,
shall not be diminished during the con-
tinuance of said judges in Office
Section 2 And be it further enacted
by the authority aforesaid, that the said
foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment To the Constitution shall be,
at the next general election to be held in
this State, submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof, for their adop-
ton or rejection in pursuance of the di-
rectors 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 Constitutional Amend
ment, and Against the Constitutional
Amendment. 80 that the voter may
elect Immediately after said election due
return shall be made to the Governor of
the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said
fourteenth article of the Constitution.
Approved April o, 1898.
Now, therefore, l, 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 copy of said Bill proposing
said Constitutional Amendment be pub
lished in at least two newspapers III each
county, where so many may be publish
ed, and where not more than one may
be published, then i'll that newspaper,
and i'll 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
general election will be held on Tuesday.
the seventh day of November. eighteen
hundred and ninety -nine.) at which
election the said proposed amendment
shall be submitted, in the form and
manner prescribed by the General AS
sembly. to the qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand
and the Great Seal of
THE GREAT Maryland.
SEAL OF Done at the city of An
MARYLAND napolis ON the 18th day of
- July, in the year of our
Lord, eighteen hundred
and ninety nine.
LLOYD LowNDEs,
Governor of Maryland.
BY order of the Governor.
GEORGE f. LowEREE,
Secretary of State.