Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-08-04

w Assembly OF Maryland, begun and
held in the City Of Annapolis on the 9Th day
of January, 1898, a bill was passed propos-
ing an Amendment to the Constitution of the
State by adding a new section to Article four
thereof, 10 be known as Section 81 A, which
said Bill and Amendment are in the words
following TO wits
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-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
&C. pted by the legal and qualified voters
the ,eof as hereinafter provided, the same
spall stand as an additional section to Article
Of said Constitution, to follow Section 81
AID to be known as Section 3lA.
81 A. In addition to the sum of FIVE hun
d'ed dollars, which by the preceding sec
TIN the Mayor and City Council of Bati-
In1re is authorized to pay to each OF the
k1ufges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
cS{', the said Mayor and City Council Of
Baltimore is further authorized to pay each
VI ohiu JuueCp huuuhllJ ii SUN uOk
fifteen hundred dollars, provided that the
same or any part thereof, being once grant
ed, shall not be diminished during the con-
tinuance of said judges in office.
SECTION 2. 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 in
pursuance of the directions contained In
Article IA Of the Constitution Of this State
and at the said general Ell lection the vote on
said proposed amendment to tie Constitution
shat be by ballot and upon each ballot
there shall be wri p GS PrIYted the word s,
"For Nne ConslitutionalS,. hendment " aud
'AgahSt the Constitutional Amendment"
so tbat lbe voter may elect aud immedi-
ately a'ep said election due return shall be
made TO the GOVERNOR. fE-the vote for and
against said proposed All Nment, as directed
by the said fourteenth SercIe OF the Conati
tuition.
Approved April 9, ls9sAF
Now, therefore, Ll4H 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, do
hereoy Oruer anu direct that copy OF said
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
ment be published in at least two newspa-
pers in 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 Balti-
more, one of which shall be in the German
language, once week for at least three
months preceding the next ersuing 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 for adoption or
rejection.
Given under my hand
~-o--- and the Great Seal of
TnE GREAr Maryland
( SEAL or Done at the city OF An
| MARYLAND. napolis on the 9Th day of
~~-~-- July, in the year Of our
Lord, eighteen hundred
and uinety-nine
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
BY order of the Governor:
GEORGE L. LOWEREE,
July 2l-ie Secretary of State.