Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-09-22
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WHEREAS ut a session Of the General Az
seTbly Of Maryland begun and held in the
City of Annapolis on the fifth day of January
1898, Bill was passed proposing an Amend
ment to the Constitution of the State by add
ing 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 Con-
slitution of Maryland by adding rev Sec
ton to Article -Four
SECTION |. Be it enacted 10y the General
Assembly of Maryland, three-ffth of all the
members of both houses concurring, That tht
following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment TO the Constitution
of the State of Maryland and if Adopted b,
the legal and qualified voters thereof as here
iRafter provided, the same shall stand as an
additional section to Article of said Consti-
tuition, to follow section 81 and to be known
as Section 81 A.
81 A. In addition to the sum Of ave hun
dred dollars which by the preceding section
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is
authorized to pay each Of the Judges of th.
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the said
Mayor and City Council OF Baltimore is further
authorized to pay to each of said Judges an
nually, a sun not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars; provided that the same or any pari
thereof, being once granted shall not BE- dimin-
lsh,d during the continuance Of the said Judges
in office
SECTION IL. And be il further enacted, BY
the authority aforesaid, that the said torezo-
ing section hereby proposed as an amendmeL I
to the Constitution shall be, at the next gen.
eral election to be held in this State, submit
ted to the lega! and qualified voters thereof,
for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
OF The directions contained in Article IA OF
the Constitution of this State; and at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution shall be by
ballot snd upon each ballot shall, there shall
be written or printed the words, "For the
Constitutional Amendment and against
he Constitutional Amendment" so that the
soter my elect; and Immediately after said
,isction due return shall be made to the Cover.
nor Of the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said fourteenth
Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 9th, 1898
| Now, Therefore, Lloyd Lowbdes, Cover
nor of the State of Maryland inpursuance Of
the provisions Of Section one of Article four
teen OF the Constitution of the State, do here
by order and direct that copy Of the said
olll pEOpOslpb 5hlu OOubllLutlOnhi amend
mant be published in at least two newspapers
in each county, where so many may be pub
lished 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 oe in the German language
once a week for at least three months proceed.
ing tine next ensuing general election (which
said general election will he held on Tuesday,
the seventh day OF November, eighteen hum
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 Stale for adoption.
| ~----@ Given under ms
The Great Seal hand and the Great
| Of Seal If Maryland.
Maryland. Doue at the City Of
@-r-- Annapolis on the IL.
day of July, 10 the
year Of our lord eighteen hundred and ninety
nine.
LLOYD 10 HNDES,
Governor OF Maryland.
By order of the Governor:
George Z. Loweree, Secretary of State.