Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-08-11
PROCLAMATION


WHEREAS, at a session of the General
Assembly of Maryland begun and held
in he City of Annapolis on the fifth
day of January. 1893. bill was pass.
ed proposing an Amendment to the
Constitution Of the State by adding q
new section 10 Article four thereof. to
be known as Section STA. which said
bill and Amendment are in the words
following. to vii,
APTER 1913.
An ACT TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION
OF MARYLAND BY ADDING a NEW
SECTION TO ARTICLE FOUR.
SECTION I. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, three
fiffhs 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
4 OF said Constitution, to follow Section
III, and to be known as Section 3IA.
RIA. In addition to the sum of five
hundred 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
OF Baltimore City, the said Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore is further au-
thorized to pay to each of 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 con-
tinuance of said Judges in Office.
SECTION ?. And be it further enact
ed, 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 rejection. in pursuance
of the directions contained IN Article II
of the Constitution of this State and al
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 Constitutional Amend
ment," and Against the Constitutional
Amendment, so that the voter may
elect, and Immediately after said election
due return shall be made to the Cover
nor OF the vote for and against said pro-
posed amendment. as directed by the
said fourteenth Article of the Constltu.
ton.
Approved April 9th. 1895.
Now THEREFORE, |, LLOYD LowN-
DIES, Governor 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 direc,
that a copy of said bill proposing said
Constitutional Amendment be published
in at least two newspapers in each coun.
ty, where so many may bepublished and
where not more than one may be pub.
lished, then in that newspaper, and IN
three newspapers in the City OF Balti'
more, one of which shall be in the Ger
man language, once week for at leas'
three months preceding the next ensuing
general election, (which said genera
election will be held oh Tuesday, the
seventh day of November, eighteen hun
bred 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
or rejection.
- Given under my hand
THE GREAT. and the Great Seal o
SEAL OF Maryland.
MARYLAND. Done at the City OF
........... Annapolis on the 9Th
day of July, in the year of our Lore
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland
BY order of the GOVERNOR
GEORGE L. LOWEREE,
Secretary of State