Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-07-21
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at session of the General As
semtly Of Maryland iegun and held in ihe
City Of Annapolis on the 6tth day OF January
1898, Bill WIS passed proposing sn Amend
ment to the Constitution OF tt. State bs add
ing new section to Article Four thereof, TO
be known as Section 3 A, which said Bill
and Amendment are in the words following
TO wit
CHAPTER 1913 Al act to 'meud the Con-
stituion Vi Nary land by -ddins sew Sec
ton to article Four
SECTION |. Be il tuarird ~ thr tirue, Al
Assembly Of Mar, and, three 6fihs Of II 4 tnt
members OF 9th houses 'olcurfins. That the
following sDriion be aad the same i. hereby
proposed Us an amendment 70 the tuustit .tiun
Of the State Of II, land and If ad0pied y.
the lepal and qlaiiiiei voters thereof - kpie-
lsaii.r provided, the sam shall 81 nd ss All
sddiuonal Sc, ton 10 4iticlp 4 OF said t'ot sti-
tuition, to follow section 81 aud 10 te known
AS Section 81
3tA la addition to the sum Ct i've hun.
dred dollars ~ hich nv the preceding set tinn
the Mayor and Civ Council Of Baltimore j.
authorized to paw e,rh ni the Judges Of tn
Supreme Bench Of Baltimore CITY tue said
Mayor aud City Council OF B ,liiporr is further
nnslly, sun not exceedin, fifteen hundred
dolars; provided that the same or any pari
thereof. being once pranted shall not he dimin-
ish, d during the continuance Of the said Judges
in Office.
SECTION IT, And he il further en- acted, BY
the authority Aforesaid, that the said f0rex0-
ing section hereby proposed as an amendmeI /
to the Constitution shall be, at the next gem
eral election to be held 10 this State, submit
Ted to the lega! and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
of he directions contained in Article "A o.
the Constitution of this State; snd at the said
general election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shah be by
ballot, snd upon each ballot shall, there shall
be written or printed the words. For the
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
the Constitutional Amendment, SO that the
voter may elect; and Immediately after said
election 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 ADril 9th. 1898
Now, Therefore, | Lloyd LowLdes, Cover
nor of the State OF Maryland inpursusnce 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
Bill proposing said Constitutional Amend.
ment be published in at least two newspapers
10 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 week for at least three months proceed
ing the next ensuing general election which
said general election will he held on Tuesday,
the seventh day OF November. eighteen hun
dred and ninet, mine, at which election the
said proposed amendment shall ne submitted,
in The form and manner prescribed by the
General Assemble, to the qualified voters 81
the State for adoption
- ------- Given under M
file Great Seal haad and the Great
Of Seal Il Marylsni
Mars lind. Doae a, the CITY Of
----s---- Annapolis on The IL,
day Of JULY. 10 the
yea Of our lord eighteen hundred and ninety
nine.
LLOYD Lo yNDES,
Governor OF Maryland
By order OF the Governor:
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