The Republican., 1899-07-20
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at q session of the General AS
sembly of Maryland begun and held in the
city of Annapolis on the fifth day Of January,
1898, Il Bill was passed proposing an.Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the State by ad-
ding a 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 1893.
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary
land by adding new Section to Article
Four
SECTION BE IT ENACTED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
three fifths 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 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 he known as section
81 y.
81 Ain addition to the sum OF live hun
dred dollars, which by the preceding section
the Mayor and 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 IJ-AND BE 1T FURTHER EN-
ACTED NV I,a of, ia hot
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
in Article II Of the Constitution of this State;
and at the said general election the vote on
said proposed Amendment to the Constitu-
tion 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 y
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 Articlelof the Constitu-
| ton.
Approved April 9Th, 1SfS.
| Now, THEREFORE,, I, LLOYD LowMDEs, 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 copy of said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
ment be published in at least two newspa-
| pers i'll 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 Baltimore,
one OF which shall be in the German Ian
| guage, 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 pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, to the
qualified voters of the State for adoption OF
rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Sea
OF Maryland.
4------------'i Done at the City Of An
| THE GREAT napOlis on the 18th day o.
SEAL OF July, in the year of oul
| MARYLAND. Lord eighteen hundred and
| a----- zninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Govern or OF Maryland
BY order of the Governor;
GEORGE +. LOWEREE,
Secretary of State. l9-lGt