Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-26
PROCLA N ALTON.

WHEREAS, at the January Session In
the year nineteen hundred Of the General
Assembly of Maryland, bills were passed
proposing amendments to the constitution OF
the State:
First,-By amending section 9 of Article s.,
of the Constitution Of the State.
Second BY amending section of Article
8, of the Constitution of tn State.
Thirdly amending section 2 of Article
3, Of the Constitution of the State, which said
bill. and and amendments are in words fol-
lowing, to wit:
CHAPTER 1876.
AN ACT to amend section nine of Article s,
of the Constitution of this State, and to
provide for the submission of said amend
ment to the qualified voters of this State
for adoption or rejection.
SEcTIoN l Be 1t enactei BY the General
assembly of Maryland, tthree fifths of all the
members elected to acI of the two Houses
concurring,) That the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment to Article 5, of the Constitution
of this State, and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, herein and as by law
provided, it shall supersede and stand in the
place and stead OF section nine OF said Article
SECTION 8 The States Attorney shall per.
form such duties and receive such fees and
commissions or salary not exceeding three
thousand dollars, MS are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law; and il any States At.
torney shall receive any other fee or reward
than such rs Is or may be allowed 10y law, he
shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from
office; provided tina, the States Alto, ney for
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 other assistants at such annual sal
aries not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars
EACH as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City NAV authorize and approve; all OF said
salaries to be paid out of the fees of the said
States Attorneys office, as has heretofore
been practiced.
SECTION 2 And be 1t further enacted, That
the foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this State,
shall be, at the next general election for
members Of the General Assembly, to be held
In this State, Submitted 10 the legal and quail
flied voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection. in pursuance of the direction con-
tanned in Article ID, of the Constitution; and
at said election the vote on said proposed
amendment shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words "For the Constitutional Amendment
or "A gainst the Constitutional Amendment
as the voter shall elect. and Immediately after
said election one return shall be made to the
Governor of the vote on said proposed amend
lnent rs directed by the said Fourteenth
Article ot the Cons ituii"n.
Approved A pril 5. 1860
CHA TER 432.
AN ACT /" amend section -four, of Article 3
OF the Co slituiion If is State
SrCrIo> l. Be ii enacted By tie General
assembly Of Mary and Utrrr tiiIlls nj VII 'ur
members of the tAo HOUSES c. Mourning
That the following section he and the same
j. hereby proposed ms IN amendment to The
Constitution of this Stale, and If adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereofas herein
provided, ID section shall snpersede and
stand IN the place and instead OF section four
of Article 3, Of said Constitution.
SECTION A. As soon as NAV be after the
TAX ny and publ shibg Of The National Census
OF 1900, or after the enumeration If the pop
uMton of this Stale, der the authority
thereof, there shall he an apporii"nment {
representation in the House of Delegates, To
b.. made on the following basis, to wit Each
of the several counties OF The State. having a
population of eighteen thousand souls ~ less,
shall he emit ed to Two delegates; and every
countv having population Of ov"r eighteen
thousand and less ,han Veniy eight thousand
souls hall be- entitled to three delegates; and
a LAT linn nf
eight thousand and less than forty thousand
souls, shall be entitled to four delegates and
every county having a population OF forty
thousand AMI less than fifty five thousand
souls, shah be entitled to five delegates; ard
every county having n population OF nifty
five thousand SOUS and upwards, shall he
entitled H. six delegates n d no ere; aud
each OF the tnui legislative dis,ri lets at the
CITY Of Baltimore shall be- entitled 10 the
number of delegates tu which the largest
county shall or may be entitled under the
atorepOing appnrtiOnmcnt, and the General
Assembly shall have the power 10 provide
by law, from time to time, for altering and
changing the boundaries Of the existing leg
slalive districts Of the City of Ba iimore, so
ms to make them rs near as my be of equal
populations; but said district shall always
consist OF contiguous territory.
SECTION 9 And be 1t further enacted By the
duthority Gtoresaid that 'hr said foregoing
section here'" proposed as an amendment TO
the CONSTITUTION. shall at the next election
for members of the General Assembly of this
State. tn lie held the Tue sha, next after the
first Monday in the month nt November
nineteen hundred and one, he submitted to
the legal aud qualified voters thereof, for
then adoption or rejection, in pursuance of
the directions contained in Article Ia, of the
Constitution of this State; and ut the said
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written
or printed the words For the Constitutional
mrndment," or Against the Constitutional
Amendment" as the voter shall elect, and
Immediately after the said election due re-
turns shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for ana against SAID proposed amend
ment, as directed by said Article IA, of the
Constitution.
Approved April Z, 1900.
CHAPTER 469.
AN ACT to amend section two of Article 3
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