The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-10-04
CHAPTER l32.
AN ACT to amend section four, Of Article 8
of the Constitution of this State.

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AN ACT to amend section four, Of Article 8,
of the Constitution of this State.
spcr1oS1. Be It enacted BIZ the General Assem-
blu of MdruIand, (three-fifths Of all the menu
beers of the two Houses concurring, That the
following section be and the same is hereby
Of this State, and If adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof as herein provided,
said section shall supersede and stand In the
place and instead OF section 1our OF Artlcle d,
of said Constitution.
SECTION AS soon as may be after the tax
ing and publishing of the National Census of
1900 or after the enumeration rat OF the
there shall be an appOrtionmento of represents
ton in the House of Delegates, to be made on
the following basis, to wit: Each OF the sew
eral counties of the State, having population
of eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be en-
titled to two delegates; and every county hav:
and less than twenty-eight thousand souls,
shall be entitled to three delegates; and every
county having population OF twenty-eight
thousand and less than forty thousand souls,
shall be entitled to four delegates; and every
s SDd iess h than thousand souls, shall be
having a population of fifty-fve thousand
souls and upwards, shall be entitled to six dele
gates and no more; and each OF the four legis,
Iative districts of the City Of baltimore shall
be entitled to the number of delegates to which
the largest county shall or may be entitled
under the aforegoing aPportionment, and the
vide by law. from time to time, for altering
and changing the boundaries Of the existing
Legislative districts Of the City Of Baltimore, %
as TO make them as near AS may be OF equal
population =; but said district shall always con-
sist of contiguous territory.
SEC g And be 1t further enacted by the dtt-
thority aforesaid, That the said foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amenam Iaf 70 me me
members of the General Assembly OF tnls
State, to be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month of November, nine
teen hundred and one be submitted to the
egal and qualified voters thereof, for tneir
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the d.
rections contained in Article Il, of the Constl-
tuition of this State and at the said election
the vote on said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
words ''For the Constitutional Amendment"
or Against the Constitutional Amendment,
as the voter shall elect, and Immediately after
the said election due returns shall be made 70
the Governor of the vote for and against said
proposed amendment, as directed by the said
Article IA, of the Constitution.
Approved April I, 1900.
CHAPTER 46e.
AN ACT to amend section two of Article 3 OF
the Constitution of the State.
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, (three-fifths of all the
mem bers of the two Houses concurring,) That
the following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
of this State, and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided,
said section shall supersede and stand in the
place and stead of section two of Article . OF
said Constitution.
2 The City of Baltimore shall be divided into
four legislative districts as near as may pc OF
and each of said legislative districts OF Baltf-
more City, as they may from time to time be
hereof, and each county in the State. shall be
entitled to one Senator, who shall be elected
by the qualified voters Of the said legislative
districts of Baltimore City, and OF the counties
of the State respectively, and shall serve for
four years from the date Of his election, sub
ject to the classification of Senators hereafter
provided for.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted by the author
tty aforesaid That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitution shall at the next election for members
held on the Tuesday next after the hrst Non
day in the month of November, nineteen hum
qualified voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection, in pursuance Of the directions con-
tanned in Article IA of the Constitution. of this
State; and at the said election the votebn said
proposed amendment to the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be written or printed the words, FOR the Con-
stitutional Amendment" as the voter shall
elect, and Immediately after said election due
returns shall be made to the Governor OF the
as directed by the said Fourteenth Article Of
the Constitution.
Approved April Z, 1900.
Now, THEREFORE, /, JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor of the State of Maryland, in pursu-
ance of the provisions Of section one of Article
fourteen of the Constitution of the State, do
hereby order and direct that copy of said bills
proposing said Constitutional Amendments be
published in at least two newspapers 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 newspa-
pers in the City of Baltimore, one of which
shall be in the German language, once week
for at least three months preceding the next
ensuing general election (Which said general
election will be held on Tuesday, the 9Th day
of November, nineteen hundred and one), at
which the said proposed amendments shall be
submitted to the qualified voters of the State
for adoption or rejection, 30 that each amend
ment shall be voted on separately.
Given under my hand and
THE GREAT the Great Seal of Maryland.
Done at the City of Annap-
'AAD i oils on the 18th day of June
MARYLAND. in the year of our Lord nine
teen hundred and one.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor of Maryland.
By order Of the Governor:
wILFRED BATEMAN,
Secretary of State.