Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-08-25
PROCLAMATION,

WHEREAS at a session of the General
w Assembly Of Maryland, begun and
held in the City OF Annapolis on the 9Th day
of January 1898, a bill was passed pronos-
ing an Amendment 10 the Constitution of The
state by adding 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 M Narv.
land by adding new Section to Article
Four
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, three-6fihs of all The
members of both houses concurriny Thai
the following section be aud the same is here.
by proposed AS an amendment TO the Com
stituuon OF the State of MARYLAND, and if
adopted by the legal aud qualified voters
thereot, as hereinafter provided, the same
shall stand as an additional section to Article
OF said Constitution, to follow Section Al
and TO be known as Section 3IA
81 A. 10 addition to the sum of five hum
dred dollars, which by the preceding sec
ton the Mayor and City Council of BALI
more is authorized to pay to each Of tho
Judges Of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
city, the said Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore is further authorized to paw each
OF said judges annually sum not exceeding
h'teen hundred dollars, provided that the
same or any part thereof being once grant.
ed, shall not be diminished during the con-
'inuance of said judges in office
SECTION 2. And be il further enacted bv
the authority Aforesaid, That the said fore.
going section hereby proposed as an amend.
ment TO the Constitution shall be. nj the
next general election to be held in this State.
submitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof, Tor 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
Against the Constitutional Amend ent.n
so mat the voter may elect aud immedi-
aiey alter said election due return shall he
made TO the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as directed
by the said fourteenth article OF the Consu
tuition.
Approved April 9, 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 40
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 NAV be
published, and where not more than one
may be published, then IN that q ewspaper
and In three newspapers in the city of Balti.
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. ! At
which election the said proposed amendment
shall be submitted, 10 the form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, TO the
qualified voters OF the State Tor adoption or
rejection.
Given under my hand
~-->-A@ and the Great Seal of
Tbs GREAr Maryland
I SEAL OF Done at the city of An.
| MARYLAND. napolis on the 9Th iay Of
~-r- July, in the year Of our
Lord, eighteen hundred |
and ninety-nine.
LLOYD L0WNDES.
Governor of Maryland.
By order Of the Governor:
GEORGE Il. LOWEREE, |
IaV z-te Secretary Of State