The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-08-26

Whereas at a session of the General As
semhly 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 add.
ing a new section to Article Four thereof, 10
be known as Section STA. which said Bill and
Amendment are in the words following, to.
wit:
CHAPTER I9S.
An act 10 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 ffths of all the
members of both houses concurring, That the
following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitu-
ton 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 of said Con-
Stitutiou, to follow Section 81 and to be known
as Section 3lA.
STA. In addition 10 the sum of five hun
bred dollars, which BY the preceding section
the Mayor aud City Council of Baltimore is
authorized TO pay to each of the Judges of the
Supreme 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 exceeding fifteen hundred
thereof, being once granted shall not be d.
minished during the continuance of said
judges in Office.
SECTION ., And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the said forego-
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 IA of the
Constitution of this State: and at 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 Consti-
tuiional Amendment, and Against the Con-
stitutional Amendment so that the voter
may elect; and Immediately after said cleo
ton due return shall be made to the Cover
nor of the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, rs directed by the said fourteenth
article of the Constitution.
Approved April 9, 1898.
Now. therefore, |, LLOYD Lowndes, Cover
nor of the State of Maryland, in pursuance of
the provisions Of Section one of Article four
teen of the Constitution of the State, do here
by order and direct that a copy of said Bill
proposing said Constitutional Amendment be
published in at least two newspapers in each
and where not more than one may be pub
lished, then in that newspaper and in three
newspapers in the city of Baltimore, one of
which shall be in the German language, once
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, eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine), at which election the said
proposed amendment shall be submitted, in
the form and manner prescribed by the Gen
eral Assembly, TO the qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand
---- and the Great Seal of
The GREAT Maryland.
SEAL OF Done at the city of An
MARYLAND. napolis ON the 18th day OF
- July, in the year of our
Lord, eighteen hundred
and ninety nine.
LLOYD LowNDEs,
Governor of Maryland
By order of the Governor
GEORGE L. LowEREE,
aug5-l3t Secretary of State.