The Republican., 1899-10-12

| Sembly of Maryland begun and held i'll the
city of Annapolis on the fifth day of January,
1898, Bill was passed proposing anAmend-
ment to the Constitution of the State by ad-
ding a 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 1875.
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary
land by adding new Section to Article
-Four.
! SECTION l-BE IT ENACTED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
three-f1fths of all the members of both houses
| concurring, That the following section he
and the same is hereby proposed as an
| amendment to the Constitution of the State
of Maryland, and if adopted by the legal and
| qualified voters thereof as hereinafter pro
vided, the same shall stand as an additional
section to Article of said Constitution, to
| follow section 81 and to be known as section
\.
81 AIN addition to the sum of five hun
dred dollars, which by the preceding section
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is
authorized to pay to each of the Judges of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the
VI NllA NOuiNll VI
further authorized to pay to each of the said
Judges annually, a sum not exceeding fifteen
| hundred dollars provided that the same or
any part thereof, being once granted shall
not be diminished during the continuance of
said Judges in office.
SECTION HAND BE IT FURTHER EN-
| ACTED. by the authority aforesaid, that the
said foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment 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 or reiec-
| ton, in pursuance of the directions contained
in Article II of the Constitution of this State;
and at the said general election the vote on
| said proposed Amendment to the Constitu-
| ton shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot,
| there shall be written or printed the words,
For the Constitutional Amendment" and
Against the Constitutional Amendments" :"
| so that the voter may elect; and Immediately
| after said election due return shall be made
to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by
the said Fourteenth Article.of the Constitu-
| tiOn.
Approved April 9th, 1898.
ernor of the State of Maryland, i'll pursuance
| of the provisions of Section one of Article
! fourteen of the Constitution of the State, do
! hereby order and direct that a copy of said
| Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend
| ment be published in at least two newspa-
| pers i'll 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 Baltimore,
| one of which shall be in the German Ian
| guage, 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 November,
| eighteen hundred and ninety-nine) at which
| election the said proposed amendment shall
be submitted, in the form and manner pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, to the
qualified voters of the State for adoption or
| rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
of Maryland.
| *----%i Done at the City of An
THE GREAT napolis on the 18th day of
SEAL LOF July, in the year of our
| ! MARYLAND. Lord eighteen hundred and
| e------ %ninety-nine.
! LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland
| BY order of the Governor;
| GEORGE E. LOWEREE,