The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-05
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, at the January Session in
the year nineteen hundred of the General
Assembly of Maryland, bills were passed
proposing amendments to the Constitu-
ton Of the State:
First.-By amending section . Of Article
D, OF the Constitution of the State.
Second.-By amending section Of Arti-
Gle 3, of the Constitution of the State.
Third.-By amending section of Article
3, OF the Constitution of the State, which
said bills and amendments are in words
following, to wit:
CHAPTER lS5.
AN ACT to amend section nine, of Arti-
Gle 5, of the Constitution of this State,
and to provide for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of
this State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-ffths
of all the members elected to each of the
two Houses concurring.) That the follow
ing section be and the same is hereby pro-
posed 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 9. The States Attorney shall
perform such duties and receive such fees
and commissions or salary not exceeding
three thousand dollars, as are now or may
hereafter be prescribed by law; and If
any States Attorney shall receive any
other fee or reward than such as is or may
be allowed by law, he shall, on conviction
thereof, be removed from office; provided
that the States ATTORNEY for Baltimore
city shall receive an annual salary OF
forty-fve hundred dollars, and shall have
power to appoint one deputy, at an annual
salary not exceeding three thousand dol
lars, and sulh other assistants at such an
nual salaries not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars each, as the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City may authorize and APP
prove; all of said salaries to be paid out
of the fees of the said States Attorneys
Office, as has heretofore been practiced.
SECTION ?. And be it further enacted.
That the foregoing section hereby propos-
ed as an amendment to the Constitution
of this State, shall be, at the next gen
eral election for members of the General
Assembly, to be held in this State. sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the direction contained in
Article IA, of the Constitution; and at said
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed
the words For the Constitutional Amend
ment" or Against the Constitutional
Amendment, as the voter shall elect,
anu luluiculdlGlN dlI6E Sdlu election one
return shall be made to the Governor of
the vote on said proposed amendment, as
directed by the said Fourteenth Article of
the Constitution.
Approved April 5, 1900.
CHAPTER 432.
AN ACT to amend section four, of Article
3, of the Constitution of this State. q
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-ffths of
all tnp members of tha ttvo Ho,eas
curring,) 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 instead of section four of
Article 3, of saIu Constitution
SECTION 4. As soon as may be after the
taking and publishing of the National Cen
sus of 1900, or after the enumeration of
the population of this State, under the
authority thereof, there shall be an appor-
tlonment of representation in the House
OF Delegates, to be made on the following
basis, to wit: Each of the several coun-
ties OF the State, having a population of
eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be
entitled to two delegates; and every coun-
| ty having a population of over eighteen
thousand and less than twenty Eight thous-
and souls, shall be entitled to three dele
gates; and every county having a popula-
| ton of twenty-eight thousand and less
than forty thousand souls, shall be enti-
tied to four delegates; and every county
having a population of forty thousand and
| less than tifty-five thousand souls. shall be
entitled to five delegates; and every coun-
ty having a population of fifty-6ve thous-
and souls and upwards, shall be entitled
to SIX delegates and no more; and each
OF the four legislative districts of the CITY
of Baltimore shall be entitled to the num-
Der OF delegates to which the largest coun-
ty shall or may be entitled under the afore
| going apportlonment, and the General As
sembly shall have the power to provide by
law, from time to time, for altering and
changing the boundaries of the existing
legislative districts of the City of Balti-
more, so as to make them as near as
NAV be of equal population; but said dis
trlct shall always consist of contiguous
territory.
SEC. 2 And be it further enacted f.y
the authority aforesaid. That the said fore.
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution, shall, at the next
election for members of the General As
sembly OF this State, to be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in
the month of November, nineteen hun
bred and one, be submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof, for their adop-
ton or rejection. in pursuance of the di-
rections contained in Article Il, of the
Constitution of this State; and at the said
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by bal
lot, and upon each ballot there shall be
written or printed the 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
to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by
the said Article IA, of the Constitution.
Approved April 7. 1900.
CHAPTEh 469
AN ACT to amend section two of Article
of the Constitution of the State.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-ffths
of all the members of the two Houses con-
curring) 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 pro-
vided, 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 divid
ed into four legislative districts as near
as may be of equal population and of con-
tiguous territory, and each of said legs-
lative districts of Baltimore City, as they
may from time to time be laid out, in ac-
cordance with the provisions hereof, and
each county in the State, shall he entitled
to one Senator, who shall be elected by