The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-08-05
CHAPTER 1913.
An Act TO Amend the Constitution of
Maryland by Adding New Section
to Article Four.

SECTION /. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland threc-tiiths OF all the
members OF both houses concurring, That
the following section he ana the same H.
hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Mary 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 Constitution, to follow section 81 and
to be known as Section 31A.
3lA. In addition to the sum of five hundred
dollars, which by the preceding section the
Mayor and City Council OF Baltimore is fur
thcr 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 annually. Il sum not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars; provided that the same or
| any part thereof, being once granted shall
not he diminished during the continuance of
said Judges in Office.
Section .. And be ii further enacted, by
the authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed us an amend
mcnt to the Constitution shall be, at the next
general election to be held in this State sub
mitted 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
Il eConStitutional Amendment, and against
the Constitutional Amendment" so that the
voter may eject; and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the Gov
crnor OF the vote for and against said pro-
posed amendment, as directed by the said
fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April g. 1898.
Now. therefore. |. Lloyd Lowndcs 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
| 10y order and direct that II copy of said Bill
proposing said Constitutional Amendment be
published in al least two news papcrs in cacf.
county, where SO many may be published
and where not more than one may be pub
iiShcd, then i'll that newspaper. and in three
newspapers in the city of Baltimore one of
which shall be in the German language, once
Il week for at least three months preceding
the next ensuing general election (Which
said general election will he held ON Tuesday
the seventh day of November, eighteen hun
said proposed amendment shall be submitted,
in the form and manner prescribed by the
| General Assembly to the qualified voters OF
the state for adoption or rejection.
| o. -----o Given under my hand
,rur ,pr,r s,., and the Great Seal of
-''' ''''''' '''"' Maryland.
OF Done 1T the City of
u,uvr,xr Annapolis, on the 18th
' ''-'''' day of July, in the year
o--- % of our Lord. eighteen
hundred and nincty-niuo.
LLOYD LOwNDES
Governor Of Maryland
BY order of the Governor:
GEORGE +. LOwEREE
Secretary of State.