The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-06-21
Proclamation.

| WHEREAS, at the January Session in tn,
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 o of Article 8
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 1876.
AN ACT to amend section nine, of Article S,
OF the Constitution OF this State, and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amendment
ton or rejection.
sEcTIoN1. Be It enacted by the General Assem-
blu of Mdryldnd, (three- fifths of all the men,
beers elected to each of the two Houses con-
curringJ 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 II adopted by the legal and quail
fed voters thereof, herein and as by law pro-
vided, 1t shall supersedc and stand in the place
and stead of section nine of said Article.
SECTION 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 IL 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
or forty-hve 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-
ries to be paid out of the fees of the said States
Attorneys office, as has heretofore been prac-
uced.
SECTION 2. And DO It 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
IA, of the Constitution; and at said election the
vote on said proposed amendment shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be writ
ten or printed the words "For the Constitution
al Amendment" or "a gainst the Constitutional
Amendment" as the voter shall elect, and i'm
be made to the Governor Of the vote on said
proposed amendment, as directed by the said
Fourteenth Article Of the Constitution.
Approved April 8, 1900.
CHAPTER 4a2.
AN ACT to amend section four, Of Article 9,
SRoTIoN1. Be It enacted BIZ the General Assem-
bly, Of Maryland, Qhree-fifths of all the MEM
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 four of Article g.
Of said Constitution.
SECTIONS. As soon as may be after the tax
ing and publishing of the National Census Of
1900, or after the enumeration of the popula-
ton of this State, under the authority thereof,
there shall be an apPortionmento of representa-
tion 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 hay-
ing population of over eighteen thousand
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 population Of forty thousand
and less than fifty-five thousand souls shall be
entitled to five delegates; and every county
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
the largest county shall or may be entitled
under the aforegoing apportionment,a and the
General Assembly shall have the power to pro-
and changing the boundaries of the existing
legislative districts Of the City Of Baltimo 50
as to make them as near as may be of equal
but said district shall always con-
sist of contiguous territory.
SEC. 2. And be It further enacted By the dtt-
thority aforesaid. That the said foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to the
shall, at the next election ior
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
egal and qualified voters thereof, for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF the d.
rections contained in Article II, of the Consti-
tuition of this State and at the said election
the vote on said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shalt be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words For the Constitutional Amendment,
or Against the Constitutional Amend ment,
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 II, of the Constitution.
Approved April Z, 1900.