Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-10-03
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:
Frs,.-By amending section of Articles,
of the Constitution Of the State.
Second BY mending section 4of Article
8, of the Constitution of tn State.
Thirdly amending section 2 of Article
3, of the Constitution of the State, which said
bills and and amendments are in words fol-
lowing, to wit:
CHAPTER 1856.
AN ACT to amend section nine of Article B,
of the Constitution of this State, and to
proyjde for the submission of said amend
ment to the qualified voters of this State
for adoption or rejection
SECTION |. Be it endctea By the General
Assembly of Maryland, (three tif,hs of all the
members elected to ach of the two Houses
concurring) That the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed rs an
amendment to Article 8, Of the Constitution
of this State. and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, herein and as ny 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 ana
commissions or salary not exceeding three
thousand dollars, as are now OF may hereafter
be prescribed by law; and il any States AT.
torney shall receive any other Tee 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 Atto' ney for
Baltimore city shall receive an annual salary
of forty five 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 sal
aries not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars
| each, as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
CITY may authorize and approve; all OF said
sala, les 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 ~ the legal and quail
! flied voters thereof for their adoption or re-
! i,ctlon, in pursuance of the direction con
iainpd in Article IA, Of the Consultation; 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 Against the Constitutional Amendment
as the voter shall elect aud Immediately a1tcr
! said election one return Shall be made 10 lne
/ Governor of the vote an said proposed amend
ment. as directed by the said Fourteenth
! Article OF the Constitution.
Approved Arri 5. 1860.
CHATTER 43s.
! AN ACT to amend section four, Of Article 3,
of the Constitution nt this State.
SECTION / Be II enacted By the General
assembly If Mdry and uhree.ftlhs OF I'll the
members of the two Houses concurring)
| That the following section be and the same
/ i hereby proposed ms m amendment to The
! Constitution of this Stale, and If adopted by
the legal and qualified voters therc0fas herein
! provided. III section shall snperscde and
stand IN the place and instead OF section four
! of Article 3, of said Constitution.
! SECTION A. As soon as NAV he after the
| taking and publishing of The Nalional Census
! of 1900, or after the enumeration of the pop
ulaton of this State, urder the authority
! thereof there shall he an apporti"nment Il
| representation in the House of Delegates, to
! b. made on the following basis, to wit Zach
of the several counties OF the State, having q
! population of eighteen thousand souls or less,
| shall be EMIT ed to Two delegates; and every
county having II 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 population OF iorty
thousand and less than fifty five thousand
souls, shrll be entitled to five delegates; ard
! every county having popu'atiun OF nfiy'
! five thousand souls and upwards, shall be
entitled to six delegates aid no more; and
each of the four legislative districts OF the
CITY of Baltimore shall be entitled to the
number of delegates to which the largest
county shah or may be entitled under the
atoregoing appnrlionment, and the General
| Assembly SHALL have the power to provide
! hy law, from ;ime to time, for altering and
changing the boundaries of the existing leg
islative districts of the City of BIZ tim0re, so
as to make them rs near as may be OF equal
| population; but said district shall always
consist of contiguous territory
SECTION 9 And be ii FURTHER enacted by the
authority aforesaid, that The said foregoing
section hereb, proposed Us an amendment TO
the CONSTITUTIONS shall at the next election
for members of the General Assembly of this
! State. to he held the Tu, sday next after the
| first Monday in the month Of November,
nineteen hundred and one, be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof, for
Their adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF
the directions contained in Article IA, OF the
Constitution of Tins State; and Mt 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
Amrndmtn r"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 and 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