Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-10-13
Oehm'S Ac eHalI
81 W Baltimore Sc, adjg Charles
Baltimore, Md.
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS Ut a session OF the General As
serbly of Maryland begun and held in the
lily Of Annapolis on the fifth day Of January,
1893, a Bill was passed proposing an Amend.
nent to the Constitution Of the State BY add
ing new section to Article Four thereof, to
he known as Section 81 A, which said Bill
and Amendment are 10 the words following
TO wit:
| CHAPTER 1873. An act to amend the Con-
s,itution of Maryland by adding new Sec
ton to Article Four
| SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, three-6fths of all the
members Of 10th houses concurriug, That the
following section 10 and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
Of the State of Maryland, and if adop,ed b,
the legal and qualified voters thereof as here
aafter provided, the same shall stand as an
additional section to Article of saii Consii-
ution, to follow section 81 aud to be known
IS Section 81 A.
81 A. 10 addition 10 the sum Of Ave hun
tired dollars, which BY the preceding section
The Mayor and City Council OF Baltimore is
authorized to pay each OF the Judges OF tue
supreme Bench of Baltimore CITY, tue said
Mayor and City Council OF Baltimore is further
authorized to pay TO each of said Judges an
nually SUM not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars; provided that the same or any part
thereof, being once granted shall not be dimin-
shed during the continuance OF the said judge
10 Office.
SECTl0N II. And be IL further enacted, by
he authority aforesaid, that the said iorego-
ng section hereby proposed az an amendment
o the Constitution shall be, at the next gen
raj election TO be held in this State, submit
ed 10 the lega! and qualified voters thereof,
or their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
# he directions contained in Article IA OF
be Constitution of this State; and at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be by
osllot, sud upon each ballot shall, there shall
oe written or printed the words, 'For the
Constitutional. Amendment" and Against
he Constitutional Amendment" 50 that the
voter may elect and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the Cover.
aor Of the vote for and against said proposed
amendment. as directed by the said fourteenth
Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 9th, 1898.
| Now, Therefore, Lloyd Lowndes, Cover
nor Of the State OF Maryland inpursuance Of
| the provisions of Section ane OF Article four
teen OF 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
u each county, 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 of which shall ne 10 the German language
once week for at least three months proceed
ing the next ensuing general election (which
said general election will be held on Tuesday,
the seventh day OF November. eighteen hun
dred and ninety -nine,) at which election the
SAID proposed amendment shall De submitted,
in the form and manner prescribed BY the
General Assembly, to the qualified voters OF
the Stale for adoption.