The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-08-03
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 State:
First.-By amending section of Article 5,
of the Constitution of the State.
Secondly amending section of Article 8,
of the Constitution of the State.
Thirdly amending section of Article 8,
of the Constitution of the State. which said
bills and amendments are IN words following,
to wit:
CHAPTER 1S5.
AN ACT to amend section nine, of Article 5,
of the Constitution of this State, and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amendment
to the qualified voters of this State for adop-
ton or rejection.
SECTIoN1. Be itendcted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, (three-ffths of all the men,
bers elected to each of the two Houses con-
curring,) That the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Article 5, of the Constitution of this
State, and if adopted by the legal and quail
fed voters thereof, herein and as by law pro-
vided, it shall supersede and stand in the place
and stead of section nine of said Article.
SECTIoN9 The States Attorney shall per-
form 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 At
torney 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-ive hundred dollars, and shall have
power to appoint one deputy, at an annual
salary not exceeding three thousand dollars,
and such other assistants at such annual sala-
ries not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars
each, as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
may authorize and approve; all of said sala-
res to be paid out of the fees of the said States
Attorneys office, as has heretofore been prac-
tced.
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 MEM
bers of the General Assembly, to be held in this
State, submitted to the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the direction contained in Article
La, of the Constitution; and at said election the
vote on said proposed amendment snail pc by
ten or printed the words For the Constitutions
al Amendment or Against the Constitutional
Amendment as the voter shall elect, and i'm
mediately after said 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 49,
AN ACT to amend section four, of Article 8,
of the Constitution of this State.
SEcrIoNl Be 1t enacted the General Assem-
hin of Mdruldnd, (three-afths of all the men,
bers of the two Houses concurring,) That the
Following section be and the same is hereby
nroposed 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 said Constitution.
SECTION T. As soon as may be after the TAX
ing and publishing of the National Census of
ton of this State, under the authority thereof,
there shall be an apportionmento of representa-
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 a population
of eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be en-
titled to two delegates; and every county hav-
ing a population of over eighteen thousand
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
county having a population of forty thousand
and less than fifty-fve thousand souls, shall be
entitled to five delegates; and every county
having a population of flfty-fve thousand
souls and upwards. shall be entitled to six dele
gates and no more; and each of the four legis-
lative districts of the City OF baltimore shall
be entitled to the number of delegatesto which
the largest county shall or may be entitled
under the aforegoing apportionment, and the
General Assembly shall have the power to pro-
vide by law, from time to time, Tor altering
and changing the boundaries of the existing
legislative districts of the City OF Baltimore, so
as to make them as near as may be of equal
population but said district shall always con-
sist of contiguous territory.
SEC q And be it further enacted BIZ the dat-
thoritg aforesaid, That the said foregoing sec
tion hereby proposed as an amendment 10 the
Constitution, shall, at the next election for
members of the General Assembly of this
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
legal and qualified voters thereof, for their 81
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
rections contained in Article IL, of the Consti-
tuition of this State; and at the said election
the vote on said proposed amendment TO the
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words s'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 saiG
Article IA, of the Constitution.
Approved April Z, 1900.