The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-08-30
CHAPTER 1859.
AN ACT to amend section two of Article OF
the Constitution of the State.

AN ACT to amend section two of Article 3 or
the Constitution of the State.
SECTION l. Be it enacted ny the General As
senlbly of Maryland, (three-fifths of all the
members of the two Houses concurring,) That
the following section he 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 stead of section two of Article 3 OF
said Constitution.
2 The City of Baltimore shall be divided into
four legislative districts near as may be of
equal population and of contiguous territory,
and each of said legislative districts of Balti-
more City, as they may from time to time be
laid out, in accordance with the provisions
hereof, and each county in the state, shall be
entitled to one Senator, who shall be elected
by the qualified voters of the said legislative
districts of Baltimore City, and of the counties
four Tr wears from the date of his election, sub
iect to the classification OF Senators hereafter
provided for.
SEC. 2 And be it further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid. That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitution shall at the next election for members
of the General Assembly of this State, to be
held on the Tuesday next after the hrst Mon
day in the month of November, nineteen hum
bred and one, be submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection, in pursuance of the directions con-
tanned in Article IA of the Constitution of this
State; and at the said election the vote on said
proposed amendment to the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be written or printed the words, "For the Con-
stitutional Amendment" or Against the Con,
stitutional Amendment, as the voter shall
elect, and Immediately 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 :. 1900.
Now, THEREFORE,, I, JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Of he nj Of nd in
ance of the provisions of section one of Article
fourteen of the Constitution of the State, do
hereby order and direct that copy of said bills
proposing said Constitutional Amendments be
published in at least two newspapers in each
county where so many may be published, and
where not more than one may be published,
then in that newspaper, and in three newspa-
pers in the City of Baltimore, one of which
shall be in the German language, once a week
for at least three months preceding the next
ensuing general election (Which said general
election will be held on Tuesday, the 9Th day
of November, nineteen hundred and one), at
which the said proposed amendments shall be
submitted 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 end
THE GREAT the Great Seal of Maryland.
Done at the City of Annap-
oils on the 10Th day of June
MARYLAND. in the year of our Lord nine
teen hundred and one.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor of Maryland.
By order Of the Governor:
WILFRED BATEMAN,
Secretary of State.