The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-12
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, at the January Session in
the year nineteen hundred of the General
Assembly of Maryland, bills were passed
proposing amendments to the Constitu-
ton of the State:
Firstly amending section Of Article
., of the Constitution of the State.
Secondly amending section 4 OF Arti-
Gle 3, OF the Constitution of the State
Thirdly amending section ? of Article
), of the Constitution of the State, which
said bills and amendments are in words
following, to wit:
CHAPTER lS5.
AN ACT to amend section nine, of Arti-
Gle s. OF the Constitution of this State,
and to provide for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of
this State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-ffths
OF all the members elected to each of the
two Houses concurring.l That the follow
ing section be and the same is hereby pro-
posed as an amendment to Article 5, of
the Constitution of this State, and if
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof, herein and as by law provided, it
shall supersede and stand in the place and
stead Of section nine of said Article.
SECTION 9. The States Attorney shall
perform such duties and receive such fees
and commissions or salary not exceeding
three thousand dollars, as are now or NAV
hereafter be prescribed by law; and if
any States Attorney 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-fve hundred dollars, and shall have
power to appoint one deputy, at an annual
salary not exceeding three thousand dol
lars, and such other assistants at such an
nual salaries not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars each, as the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City may authorize and ap-
prove; all of said salaries to be paid out
of the fees of the said States Attorneys
office, as has heretofore been practiced
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted,
That the foregoing section hereby propos-
ed as an amendment to the Constitution
of this State, shall be, at the next gen.
eral election for members of the General
Assembly, to be held in this State, sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters
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 amend
ment shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed
the words For the Constitutional Amend
ment' or against the Constitutional
Amendment, as the voter shall elect,
and Immediately 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 432.
AN ACT to amend section four, of Article
3, of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of Maryland (three-ffths of
all the members of the two Houses con-
curring) That the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this