Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-09-08
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at session of the General AS
emily of Maryland begun and held in the
ity of Annapolis on the fifth day of January,
1898 Bill was passed proposing an Amend.
nent 10 the Constitution of the State by add
ing new section to Article -Four thereof, to
be known as Section 81 A, which said Bill
.nd Amendment are in the words following
10 wit,
CHAPTER 1893 An act to amend the Con-
ititution of Maryland by adding a sew Sec
lion to Article Four
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Mary land, 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 Constitution
If the State of Maryland, and if Adopted b,
tie legal and qualified voters thereof. as here
iaalter provided, the same shall stand as an
additional section TO Article OF said Consti-
.uton, to follow section 81 ami to be known
IS Section 81 A.
3lA. 10 addition to the sum O + i've hum
ired dollars, which by the preceding section
The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is
authorized to pay 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
laally, d SUN not exceedinr fifteen hundred
dollars: provided that the sane or any part
hereof being once granted shall not be dimin-
shsd during the continuance of the said Judges
office
Sc. II N H. And be il further enacted, by
The authority Aforesaid that the said ioreko-
ny section hercb, proposed as an amendment
the Constitution shall be, at the next gen
.ral election TO he held in this State, submit
ed TO the lega! and qualified voters thereof
or their adoption or r., lection, in pursuance
If he direcuocs contained in Article "A OF
The Constitution of this State; and at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution shall be By
ballot, snd upon euch ballot shall, there shall
ie written or printed the words, "For the
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
he Constitutional Amendment" so that the
.oter may elect; and immediately after said
rcliun due .rslar1 shall be made to the Gov, r.
or Of the vote fer and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said fourteenth
Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 9th, 1893
Now, Therefore, | Lloyd Lowhdes, Cover
nor OF the State OF Maryland inpursusnce of
Ghe provisions of Section one of Article four
teen oil the Constitution of the State do here
oy order and direct that copy Of the said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
ment be published in at least two newspapers
IN each count, where SO many may be pub
iished and where not more than one NAV be
published, then in that newspaper, and in
three newspapers in the CITY Of Baltimore,
one ofwheh shall De in the German language
once week for at least three months proceed
lug the next ensuing general election (which
said general election will he held on Tuesday,
The seventh day OF November, eighteen hum
ireu and ninety mine, at which election the
said proposed amendment shall DE submitted,
in the form and manner prescribed by thu
General Assembly, 10 the qualified voters OF
tile State for adoption.
c-1--- Given under my
The Great Seal hand and the Great
OF Seal IT Maryland,
Maryland. DoAe at the City OF
@----- Annapolis on the IL,
day OF July, 10 the
year of our lord eighteen hundred aud ninety
nine.
LLOYD LO NNDES,
Governor OF Maryland.
By order of the Governor;
George LoWeree Secretary of State