The Republican., 1899-09-28

| WHEREAS at a session Of the General As
sembly of Maryland begun and held in the
city of Annapolis on the fifth day of January,
1898, a Bill was passed proposing an Amend
! ment to the Constitution of the State by ad-
ding a 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.
! SECTION BE IT ENACTED BY THE
| GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
| three-f1fths 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 pro-
| vided, the same shall stand as an additional
section to Article Of said Constitution. to
follow section 81 and to be known as section
81 A.
81 Ain 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
same Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is
further authorized to pay to each of the said
Judges annually, a sum not exceeding fifteen
hundred 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 II-AND BE IT FURTHER EN-
ACTED, 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 adoption or rejec-
ton, in pursuance of the directions contained
in Article IA of the Constitution of this State;
and at the said general election the vote on
said proposed Amendment to the Constitu-
tion shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
there shall be written or printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment" and
Against the Constitutional Amendment" 4"
so that the voter may elect; and 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 Constitu-
ton.
Approved April 9th, 1898.
Now, THEREFORE,, |, LLOYD LowMDES, 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 copy of said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
ment be published in at least two newspa-
pers in each county, where so many may be
published and where not more than one may
| be published, then in that newspaper, and in
three newspapers in the City of Baltimore,
one of which shall be in the German Ian
| guage, 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 pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, to the
qualified voters of the State for adoption OF
rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Sea
| of Maryland.
| T----Fi Done at the City OF An
| THE GREAT napoliS on the 18th day o.
| SEAL OF July, in the year Of oul
| MARYLAND. Lord eighteen hundred anC
%------ sninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
BY order of the GOvenor
GEORGE E. LOWEREE,
Secretary OF State. l9-l6t