Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-07-13
Chapter 100.

AN ACT t" amend Section two of Article 3
of the Constitution of the State.
SECTION BE it enacted by the GcyeraI H.
Sem6'y Of Harytand, three tlfths of all the
members of the two Houses Concurriny.1 !
mat the following Section be and the same
Is hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State and if adoptcd by
the legal and qualified voters thereof as
herein provided, said Section shall SIIpcrsede
and stand in the place and stead of Section
cot Article ) of said Constitution:
The city of Baltimore shall be divided
mt" four legislative districts as near as may
ne "i equal population and of contiguous ter
rit0ry, and each of said legislative districts of
baltimore city, as they NAV from time tu
tlmc be laid out, in accordance with the pro
VISIONS hereof, and each county in the State
snail pc entitled Done senator who shall be
Erected by the qualified voters of the said loo
lNlatlve districts of Baltimore city. and of the
counties or the state respectively, and shall
serve Tor four years from the date of his eIrc-
tl"n subject to the classification of senators
hereafter provided for.
SECTION 2-4nd be il fnrttcy c,,actcd I'm tLc
d"ho'1ty GforeSoid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall at the next election for
members of the General Assembly of Ills
state, t" be held on the Tuesday next after
the trSt Monday in the month Of November,
nineteen hundred and one be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof fortheir
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
rcctinhS contained in Article II of the Con-
S,ll''tl"h "f TINS State; and at the said election
the vote ON said proposed amendment to the
constitution shall be by ballot, and lpnn
each ballot there shall be written or rrintcI
the words. For the Constitutional Amend
mcnt, or Against the Constitutional
Amendment as the voter shall elect. and
lmmcnlately after said election due returns
shall be made to the Governor of the vote for
and against said proposed amendment rs
directed by the said Fourteenth Article Of
the Constitution.
Approved April l. 1870
Now, therefore, |, JonN WALTER Smith
Governor of the State of Maryland, in pur-
Suancc of the provisions of Section one of
Article fourteen of the Constitution of the
State, do hereby order and direct that a co,v
OF said bills proposing said Constitutional
Amendments be published in at least two
newspapers i'll each county where So many
may be published, and where not more than
one may he published, then in that news
paper, and in three newspapers in the city of
Baltimore, one of which shall be in the
German language, once ii week for at least
three months preceding the next ensuing
general election (Which said general election
will be held on Tuesday, the 9TH dav of No
vembcr, nineteen hundred and one at which
the said proposed amendments shall be sub
mittcd to the qualified voters of the State for
adoption or rejection, So that each amend
ment shall be voted on separately.
Given under my hand and
:Gr,.,m .r the Great Seal of MARYLAND
OF Done at the city of Annap-
:MARYLAND. :: oils ON the 18th day Of June.
'.'....''..'.: in the year of our Lord nine
hundred and one
JOHN WALTER SMITH.
Governor of Maryland.
by order of the Governor:
WILFREp BATEMNN,
July l" Secretary of State.