The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-10-25
Proclamation.

WHEREAS, at the January Session In the
year nineteen hundred Of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, bills were passed proposing
amendments to the Constitution of the States
First.-By amending section Of Article 8,
of the Constitution of the State.
Secondly amending section Of Article 3,
of the Constitution of the State.
Third.-By amending section of Article 8,
of the Constitution of the State, which said
bills and amendments are IN words following.
to wit:
CHAPTER 1856.
AN ACT to amend section niue, of Article 5,
of the Constitution of this State, and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amendment
to the qualified voters or this state Tor adop-
ton or rejection.
sEcTIoN1. Be 1t enacted by the General Assem-
blu of Mdryldnd, (three fit this of all the meIn-
bers elected to each of the two Houses COLI
curringJ That the following, section be a. d
the same is hereby proposed as nm amend
ment to Article 5, of the Constitution or this
State, and if adopted by the legal and quail
fed voters thereof, herein and us by Inv Inv PR"
and stead of section nine of said Article.
SECrIoN9. The States Attorney shall. per.
form such duties and receive such foes ana
.;ommissions or sllury not excccdirg three
thousand dollars, as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law; und IL any States At
ttrney shall receive any other fee or reward
shall, OH conviction thereof, be removed fro"i
Office; provided that the Suites Attorney f'i
baltimore city shall receive AN annual salary
of fOrty-five hundred dollars, and shall have
power to appoint one deputy. Mt an annual
salary not exceeding three Thousand dollars,
and such othpr Assistants at such annual snln-
ench, as tn" supreme Ben, of baltimore City
may authorize and approve; all OF said sala-
rites to be pIid out III ihe fees of the said States
Attorneys Office, as has heretofore been prnc-
ticed.
SECTION 9. And he II further enacted, That
the foregoing section hereby PROPOSED ms an
amendment to tine Constitution of this State,
shall be, at the next general election for men,
hers of the General Assembly, to be held in this
state. submitted 10 the legal and qiiulif vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection, IN
pursuance of the direction contained i'll Article
IA, of the CONSTITUTION; and at snd election the
vote on said proposed amendment shall be by
ballot, and upon ouch bullet there shall he writ
nj Amendment" or Against the Constitutional
Amendment" as the voter shall elect, and i'm.
medintcly after snid eicction one return sniii
he made to the Governor of the vote on said
propos,d amendment, as directed by the suid
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April s, 1900.
CHAPTER 4a2.
AN ACT to amend section four, of Article T.
of tho CunstitullO OF this state.
SrcrroN1. BE it enacted IN the General ISsern.
hin of MdrULnHd, (thrC-ifths of all tho mem.
beers of the two Houses cuncurrinR,) Th"t tl'
following section he ind tile sumo is hereby
proposed as W AN ~ n" 10 hw 1 t isai a II
Iualifcd voters thereof nS herein provide d.
said section shall siIpcrsedc and stHod in H.,
rlace and instead Of section TOUR OF Article i
of said Constitution.
SECTION 4. AS soon MS may he after the TAX
ing and publishing OF the National Census ni
800, or after the enumeration of the pnIlIn
ton of this State, under the authority thereof
there shall he an arportionmcnt OF representa-
ton in the House of DELEGATES, 10 he made on
the following basis, TO wit: Each OF tho scr
,,ral counties of the State. having populHtiu
of eighteen thousand souls or less. shnll bc
titled to two delegates; and every county hnN
ing q population or over eighteen thousni".
md less than twcnty-cipht thousand sOul-
shall be entitled to three delegates; and cr'r
county having population OF twcnty-ciEl
thousand and less than forty Thousand s"tiT
hall be entitled to four delegates: ard ev,i
county having population OF forty thousnr
aud less thun fifty-6ve thousand souls, shall t..
untitled to five delcvatcs; aud every count
having a population Of fifty-tivo thousai'
souls and upwards, shal be outitlcd to six del
rates and no more; and each OF the four lcgis
atyS let 6 oi tine Gy Of ID VIII sr
the largest county shall or may he entit.
under the afOreqoing appOrtioninriit,n ana IT,
General Assembly shall huye the power to ~"
vide by law, sfrom time to time, for alter IN
and changing the boundaries OF Tho extsttn d:
legislative districts of the City OF baltimore, p,
80, .II.,"u lhuiu us neg ~ nlnI 'n' "f equ'
population; bat said district shall always cou
st of contiguous territory.
SEC. =. And he it further enacted bu the d't
hDritB aforesaid, That the said foregoing sec
ion hereby proposed rs an amendment to thu
Constitution, shall, at the next election for
members of the General Assembly of this
tate, TO he held on the Tuesday next after the
lrst Monday in the month of November, nine
cen hundred and one, he submitted to the
egal and qualified voters thereof, for their
I'ipptiou or rel 'ction, in pursuance Of the d-
'actions contained i'll Article II, of tho Consti-
'utiou of this State aud ut tho said election
he vote on said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
,Ilot there shall be written or printed the
words For the Constitutional Amendment"
'r"Against the Constitutional Amendment"
- the voter shall elect and Immediately after
he said election due returns sinai be made to
he Governor OF the vote for and apainst said
proposed amendment, us directed by tho said
Article II, of tic Constitution.
ApprOycd April 7, 1900.