Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-10-21

WHEREAS, AT a session of the General AS
sembly of Maryland, begun and held in the
city of Annapolis on the fifth day ofJanuary,
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 new Section to Article
-Four.
election l. BE it enacted By the General
~ ASSem61y Of Naryla"d, Three-fifths of all
the members Of both Houses Concurring
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 the legal and qualified voters
thereof, as hereinafter provided, the same
shall stand as an additional Section to Article
Four of said Constitution, to follow Section
81, and 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 enacted by the
authority aforesaid That the said foregoing
Section hereby proposed as an Amendment
to the Constitution shall be, at the next gen.
tn no hnl in, hiuS Toto
ted to the legal and qualified voters thereof,
Tor Their adoption or rejection, in 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-
stitutional 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
ernor 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 may be pub
lished, then i'll that newspaper, 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
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 Gen
eral Assembly, to the qualified voters Of the
State for adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
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ihc Z Done at the City of An
%Hfeat SeaI / napolis on the 18th day of
of 1 July, in the year of our
( Maryland. ( Lord eighteen hundred and
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LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland
BY order of the Governor:
GEORGE +. LOwEREE,
July 22-1Gt Secretary of State.
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