The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-08-10
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, a 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 tG}
AN ACT to amend the Constitution Of Mary
land by adding new Sectp Il Article
| -Four. ESySt
SECTION BE IT ENACTED BY, THE
| GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND.
| three-fitthS OF all the members of both houses
! conculring, 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 Am addition to the sum of 1--WE hun
dred dollars, which by the preceding section
the Mayor ana 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 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
i'll Article II 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 Articleof the Constitll-
ton.
/ Approved April 9th. 1898.
Now, THEREFORE,, /, LLOYD IowMDEs. Gov
ernor of the State of MargaaaSlxs =. pursuance
| of the provisions of Section one of Article
| fourteen of the Constitution of the State. dc
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 il
| three newspapers in the City of Baltimore
one of which shall be in the German Ian
| Suage, once week for at least three month!
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 whicl
election the said proposed amendment shall
be submitted, in the form and manner pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, to TIN
qualified voters of the State for adoption o
rejection
Given under my hand and the Great Sea
of Maryland.
S--------------< Done at the City of An
| The GREAT napoliS on the 18th day O
| SEAL OF July, in the year OF on
| MARYLAND. Lord eighteen hundred an,
! ga------------- zninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland
by order of the Governor:
GEORGE Il. LOwEREE,
Secretary of State. 10 LIT