Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-08-18
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS At session Of the General As
ser bly, Of MARYLAND teSdn and held in the
CITY Of Annapolis % the fifth day Of January
1898, Bill vas passed proposing an Amend
ment to the Constitution Of n. State by add
ing new section Ia Article -Four thereof, TO
be known as Section 81 A, which said Bill
and Amendment are 10 the words following
to wit.
CHAPTER 1893 An act 10 amend the Con-
stitution Of Maryland by adding a new Sec
ton TO Article Four
SECTION / Be il enacted by the General
Assembly Of Mar, land, three-ffths Of all the
members of 9th houses concurring Thai the
following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment TO the Consultation
Of the State of Maryland, and if adop,ed b,
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as here
iaafter provided, the same shall stand as an
additional section to Article of said Gousti-
tuition, 10 follow section 81 and to be known
as Section 81
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 each Of the Judges OF the
Supreme Bench Of Baltimore Civ, tire said
Mayor and City Council Of B-lii2ora is further
authorized to pay 10 each OF said Judges sn.
ndally. SUN not exeeediu'- fifteen hundred
dollars; provided that the same or Au, part
thereof. being once granted sh Ill not TIC dilnin-
sh 4 during the continuance vi ihr said Judges
10 Office
SECTION II. Aud belt further D.ied, hy
the authority Aforesaid thtt The sad inr-su-
ing section herebs proposed as an aue ndneI 1
70 the Con.,iiuiion shall he, al the nrxt gem
eral election to ha held in itis Statr, submit
ted to the iega! and qualified 70 ess t'r -'-',
for their ndnptinn or ri .cnon. in ursuar E
Of The directors contained in Article Il OF
The Constitution Of this STATE; and al the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution shall he h,
ballot, sud upon each hnIlot shall, there sha /
be written or printed the words, For the
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
he Constitutional Amendment" so that the
voter may cleo aud immediately after said
election due r,tgin shlu bc m .de 10 the (is.s4r.
nof of the vote fer aud Against said proposed
amendment, az directed by the said fourteenth
Article Of the Constitution.
Approved ADstl 9Th 1898
Now, Therefore, ! Lloyd Lowndes. Cover
nor of the State Of Maryland inpursu nee of
the provisions Of Section one Of Article four
teen Of the Constitution Of the State, do here
by order and direct that cops Of the said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
mant be published IN al least two newsps pers
10 each COUNT where so many may be pub
lished and where not more than one NAV be
published, then in that newspaper, aud in
three newspapers in the CitE Of Baltimore,
one Of which shall De 10 the German Ian uare
once n week for At least three mouths pr0ceet.
ing the next ensuing geaera' election (which
lsaid general election will tie held on Tuesday,
the seventh day o. November, eighteen hum
dred and ninet, mine, at which election the
sand proposed amendment shall ne SUBMITTED,
in the form and manner prescribed ny the
General ASSEMBLE, to the qualified voters Of
the State for adoption.
c--o Given under my
| The Great Seal hand and the Great
Of Seal It Maryland
Mary land. Doae a, the CITY OF
---~--- Annapolis on the 10.
day of July, 10 the
year of our lord eighteen hundred and ninety
nine.
LLOYD 10 ENDES,
Governor OF Maryland
By order Of the Governor;
George r. Loweree, Secretary of State.