Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-11-03
Oehn's Acme Hall
81 W. Baltimore Sc, adjg Charles
Baltimore, Md


WHEREAS Mt a session Of the General As
sen bly, Of Maryland begun and held n the
I City of Annapolis on the fifth day of January,
/ 1898, Il Bill was passed proposing an Amend
ment to the Constitution Of tn State by add
4 ing a new section 10 Article -Four thereof, to
! be known AS Section 81 A, which said Gill
and Amendment are in the words following
/ 10 wit.
CHAPTER 1893. An act to amend the Con-
stitution Of Maryland by adding a Rew Sec
lion to Article Four
SECTION / Be it enacted 10y the General
Assembly of Nary land, three-ffths Of all tue
members of both houses concurring That the
| following section be and the same ia hereby
proposed as an amendment 10 the Constitution
of the State of Maryland and if adoped by
the legal and qualified voters thereof as here
! iaafter provided, the same shall stand as an
additional section to Article of said Consti-
tntion, TO follow section 81 and TO be known
rs Section 81 A.
3lA. In addition to the sum Of live nun.
bred dollars, which By the preceding section
the Mayor aud City Council Of Baltimore is
authorized to pay each of the Judges of the
Sapreme Bench OF Baltimore City, the said
Mayor and City Council Of Baltimore is further
authorized to pay TO each of said Judges an
nually, sum not eEeeedinr fifteen hundred
dollars; provided that the same or any part
thereof, being once granted shall not be dimin-
lshed during the continuance OF the said Judges
ia Office
SECTION II. And belt further enacted, by
the authority aforesaid, that the said foreso-
ing Netiou hereby proposed as aa amendmeL t
to the Constitution shall be, at the next gem
eral e.eelion to be held in this State, submit
ted to the lega! and qualified voters thereof,
for their adoption Or rejection, in pursuance
of The direction contained in Article IA OF
the Consti tution Of this State; and at the said
general elisciion the vote on said proposed
lmendment 10 the Constitution shall be by
ballot, snd pom etcb ballot shall, there shall
De written or printed the words, For the
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
the Constitat onal Amendment" so that The
Soier NAV elect; and imuiediaiel, atter said
election due return sinai be III tde 10 the Cover
nor of the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said fourleenth
Article OF the Constitution.
Approsed ADrfl 9th, 1898.
Now, Therefore, Lloyd Lovndes, Cover
nor OF the State of Maryland inpursuanee of
the provisions OF Section Que Of article four
teen OF the CONSTITUTIONS of the State, do here
ny order aad direct that copy of the said
Bill proposing SAID tIonsutational Amend
ment he published in 1T leastfwo newspapers
10 each county, where 50 many faay be pub
ished aad where net more than one NAV te
published, then in tIlak newspaper, and in
three newspapers in che CITY Of Baltimore,
one OF which shall De Ia &c German language
once II week for ut eas' three months proceed
ing tee next ensuing general election which
said general election will ; e held on Tuesd y,
he seventh day November, eighteen nnu-
lreu and ninelg-niue,) TT which election inc
SAID proposed amendment shall De submitted,
in the form and mdnaer prescribed by the
General Assembl n the qualified yotersof
the State for adoption