Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-09-08
PROCLAMATION.

| AHEREAS 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, bill was passed propos-
ing an Amendment to 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 OF Mary
land by adding new Section to Article
| Four.
| SECTION |. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, three-fifths of all the
members of both houses concurrng, 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.
81 A. In addition to the sum of five hum
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 "A sum not exceeding
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, al the
next general election to be held in this State
l on. t.t.ns tt "A Al. l.. Sc
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 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 Amendment"
so that the voter may elect aud immedi-
| aiely after said election due return shall be
made 10 the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as directed
| by the said fourteenth article of the Consti
| tuition.
Approved April 8, 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, do
hereby order and 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 a 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, J 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 or
| rejection.
Given under my hand
--~--- and the Great Seal Of
| The GREAT ! Maryland
| SEAL OF Done at the city of An.
! | MARYLAND. napolis on the l. 9th day Of
~-~-~ July, in the year of our
Lord, eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
By order of the Governor
GEORGE E. LOWEREE,
| July 2l-te Secretary of State.