Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-11-03
PROCLAMATION.

NIHEREAS at a session of the General
w Assembly of Narylan begun aud
held in the City Of Annapolis on the 9Th day
OF January, 1893, a bill was passed propos-
ing an Amendment " the Constitution of the
state by adding new section 10 Article four
thereof, 10 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 ii enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, three-ffths of all the
members of both houses concurring, That
the following section be aud the same is here
by proposed as an amendment TO the Con-
stitution of the State of Maryland, and if
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as hereinafter provided, the same
shall stand as an additional section TO Article
OF said Constitution, TO follow Section 81
and to be known as Section 3lA.
3l:A. In addition to the sum of FIVE hun
dred dollars, which by the preceding sec
ton the Mayor and City Council OF 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 exceed ing
fifteen hundred dollars, provided that the
same or any part thereof, being once grant
ed, shall not be diminished during the con-
tnuance of said judges in Office.
SECTION Q. 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 10
pursuance of the directions contained 10
Article IA of the Constitution Of this State ;
and at the said general election the vote on
said proposed amendment to the Constitu tioI
shall be by ballot, and upon each ballo'
there shall be written or printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment " and
Against the Constitutional Amend ment,'
80 that the voter may elect aud immedi-
ately alter said election due return shall be
made 10 the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amend ment, as directed
oy the said fourteenth article OF the Consti
tuition.
Approved April 8, 1898.
Now, therefore, | Lloyd Lowndes, Gov.
ernor OF the State OF Maryland, in pnrsuanc,
Vi 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 al least two newspa.
pers IN each county, where SO many may b.
published, and where not more than on,
may be published, then 10 that Newspaper
and IN three newspapers in the city of Balti
more, one of which shall be in the German
language, once a week for at least thre,
months preceding the next ensuing general
election (which said general election will b,
held on Tuesday, the seventh day of Novem
Der, eighteen hundred and ninety nine, J al
which election the said proposed amendmen
shall he submitted In the form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, TO tn,
qGallned voters Of the State Tor adoption oil
rejection.
Given under my hanC
@O~-~ and the Great Seal o
The GREAT Maryland
SEAL OF Done at the city Of An
| MARYLAND. napolis on the 9th day o
~O~ July, in the year of GU
Lord, eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland
By order of the Governor:
GEORGE e LOWEREE,
July 2l-ie Secretary of State.