The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-08-31
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 a new section to Article Four thereof,
| to be known as Section 81 A. which said Bill
| and Amendment are i'll the words following.
| to wit:
CHAPTER 19j.
| AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary
land by adding new Section to Article
Four.
SECTION BE IT ENACTED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
| three fifths 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
3lA.
81 AIN addition to the sum of I'VE hun
dred dollars, which by the preceding section
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is
tuuilOI lSCt W pay W CdNl VI lIC JuuECS VI
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 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 u of the Constitution of this State;
and at the said general election the vote on
| said proposed Amendment to the Constitu-
| ton 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 pS-stsinoe
| of the provisions of Section one OF Article
fourteen of the Constitution of the State do
hereby order and direct that a 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 will be held on
, | Tuesday, the seventh day OF November
J 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.
f-------Fi Done at the City of An
i THE GREAT napoliS on the 18th day O
SEALOF July, in the year of oul
| MARYLAND. Lord eighteen hundred anC
ls------ aninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES
= Governor of Maryland
i BY order of the Governor;
: GEORGE Il. LOWEREE,
:: Secretary of State. -16t