Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-08-18
CHAPTER 1873

CHAPTER 1893
AN ACT To amend the Constitution OF Mary
land by adding hew Section to Article
Four
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Mary land three-fifths 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 Com
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. 10 addition to the sum of FIVE hun
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 aud 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 O. And be il 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 n
pursuance of the directions contained in
Article Ia of the Constitution OF this State ;
and ut the said general ell ecton the vote on
said proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
there shall lie written or printed the words
| ha A nd
against the Constitutional Amendment
so that the voter may elect aud immedi.
ately aftct 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 Consti
tuition.
Approved April 8, 1898.
Now, therefore, Lloyd Lowndes, Gov.
ernor of the State OF Maryland, in pursuanc,
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 in each county, where so many may b,
published, and where not more than on,
may be published, then iu that newspaper
and in three newspapers in the city of Balti
more, one of which shall be in the German
language, once q week for at least thre,
mon tbs preceding the next ensuing general
election (which said general election will b.
held on Tuesday, the seventh day of Novem
Der, eighteen hundred and ninety nine } a
which election the said proposed amendmen
shall be submitted, 10 the form and name
prescribed by the General Assembly, to tn
qualified voters of the State for adoption o
rejection.
Given under my han,
c-~-~@ and the Great Seal O
( tbs GREAT Maryland
SEAL OF Done at the city of An
| MARYLAND. napolis on the / 9th day q
$4,000 July, in the year of gu
Lord, eighteen hundre
and ninety-nine
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor of Maryland.
BY order of the Governor:
GEORGE E L0WEREE,
july 2l-te Secretary of State,