Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-08-11
CHAPTER 1893.

b'hI I'm 100.
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary
land by adding new Section to Article
Four.
SECTION l. 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 here
| by proposed rs an amendment to the Com
stltuton OF the State of Maryland, and if
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof, as hereinafter provided, the same
shall stani as an additional section to Article
A OF said Constitution, to follow Section 81
and TO be known as Section 3lA
81 A. In addition to the sum of five hun
dred dollars, which by the preceding sec
ton the Mayor aud Guy Council ol Balti-
more 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 each
OF said judges annually sum not exceeding
hfteen hundred dollars, provided that the
same or any part thereof, being once grant
ed shall not be diminished during the con-
tinuance OF said judges in office.
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment 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 OF rejection in
pursuance Of the directions contained in
Article Ia Of the Constitution OF this State !;
and at the said general ell ection 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 Constitutional Amendment - and
of 4
so that the voter may elect aud immedi-
aleIy alter said election due return shall be
made 10 the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment as directed
by the said fourteenth article OF the Consli
tuition
Approved April 8, 1898.
Now, therefore, | Lloyd Lowndes, Gov
ernor OF the State of Maryland, in pursuance
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 in 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 Balt-
more, 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 Novem-
Der, eighteen hundred and ninety nine, y at
which election the 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.
Given under my hand
-O~@o~ and the Great Seal of
The GREAT Maryland
SEAL OF Done ut the city of An
| MARYLAND. napolis on the 9th day Of
~-~-C July, in the year of our
Lord, eighteen hundred
and ninety-une.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
BY order of the Governor:
GEORGE T. LOWEREE,
July 2l-'e Secretary Of State.