Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-09-01

WHEREAS ut session Of the General As
seu'bly Of Maryland begun and held 10 the
City Of Annapolis on the 9Th day Of January
1898, Bill was passed proposing an Amend
ment to the Constitution Of To, State by add
ing new section to Article -Four thereof, to
be known as Section 3 A, which said Bill
and Amendment are in the words following
10 wit
CHAPTER 1893 An act TO amend the Con-
stitutiou Of Maryland by adding rev Sec
ton to Article -Four
SECTION / Be il enacted hy the Geuerul
Assembly Of Marylaad, three ffths OF all the
members Of both houses g0ncurring That the
following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment 10 the Constitution
Of the State Of Mary land. and il adopted o,
the legal and qualified voters thereof as here
isaiter provided, the same shall stand rs AZ
additional section 10 Article Z Of said f'onsiir
tution to follow sertion 81 aud to be known
IS Section 8
81 A. 10 addition to the SUN Of Eve hun
tired dollars. Rhich by the preceding section
the Mayor and City Council Of Baltimore il
authorized to pay each IT the Judges 81 the
Supreme Bench Of Baltimore City. the said
Nasor and City Council Of Baltimore is further
authorized to pay 70 zach OF said Judges an
lualiy, SUN net exccgiins fifteen hundred
dollars; provided that the same or any pai t
hereof. being oace granted shall MOI be dinit-
shed during the continuance Of the said Judges
L Office
SECTION II And he it further n,cied, by
the authority Aforesaid that the said iorego-
ing section hereby proposed as an amendmeLt
o the Constitution shall be, at the next geo.
eral election to be held 10 this State, submit
led to the legal and qualified vo ers thereof,
for their adoption or REJECTION. in pursuance
IT lhe directors contained 10 Article IA OF
the Constitution Of this State; aud at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution shall be bv
ballet, snd upon each ballot shall, there shall
Ne written or printed the words, For the
Constitutional Amendment, and Against
he Constitutional Amendment" so that the
otter may elect; and immediately after said
'ie,iion due return shall be made 10 lie Gov, r
nor Of the vote fer and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said fourteenth
Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 9Th, 1898
Now, Therefore, | Lloyd LowL5es, Cover
nor OF the State Of Maryland inpursusnce Of
the provisions Of Section one OF Article four
teen OF the Constitution Of the State, do here
by order aud direct that copy Of the said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
ment be published in at least two newspapers
in each county, where SO many may be pub
ished 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 De in the German language
once week for at least three months proceed
ing the next ensuing general election (which
said general election will he held on Tuesday,
the seventh day of November, eighteen hun
dred and ninety mine, 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.
E-le0 Given under my
The Great Seal hard and the Great
of Seal II Maryland.
Maryland Doue at the City OF
~-------,----=J Annapolis on the 49,
day of July. 10 the
year Of our lord eighteen hundred and ninety
nine.
LLOYD 10 FNDES,
Governor OF Maryland
By order OF the Governor:
George E. Loweree, Secretary Of State.