The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-08-17
PROCLAMATION.

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, Bill was passed proposing an Amend
ment to the Constitution of the State by ad-
ding 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. ~nSf
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-flfths 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
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 Hand BE 1T 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, i'll 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 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"
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 i'll 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 a week for at least three months
preceding the next ensuing general election
(Which said general election viii be held on
Tuesday, the seventh day of November
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine) at which
election the said proposed amendment shall
| be submitted, i'll the form and manner pre-
scrlbed by the General Assembly, to the
qualified voters of the State for adoption oi
rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Sea
of Maryland.