The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-19

city shall receive an annual salary of
torty-tive 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 an
| prove; all OF said salaries to be paid out
OF the ices OF the said States Attorneys
office, as has heretofore been practiced.
-, SECTION ,. And be it further enacted,
nat the foregoing section hereby propos-
| ed as an amendment to the Constitution
| OF this State, shall be, at the next gem
eral election for members of the General
Assembly, to be held in this State. sub
united 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 D. 1900.
CHAPTER 432.
| AN ACT to amend section four, of Article
3, of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-ifths of
all the members OF the two Houses con-
currlng,) That the following section be
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 instead of section four of
Article 3. OF salu Constitution.
SECTION 4. As soon as may be after the
taking and publishing of the National Cen
sus of 1900, or after the enumeration of
the. population of this State, under the
| authority thereof, there shall be an appor-
tlonment OF representation in the House
OF Delegates, to be made on the following
basis, to, wit: Each of the several coun-
ties OF the State, having a population of
eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be
entitled to two delegates; and every coun-
ty having population of over eighteen
thousand and less than twenty-eight thous-
and souls, shall be entitled to three dele
gates; and every county having a popula-
ton OF twentyeight thousand and less
than forty thousand souls, shall be emit
tied to four delegates; and every county
having population of forty thousand and
less than tifty-five thousand souls, shall be
entitled TO five delegates; and every coun-
ty having a population of fifty-five thous-
and souls and upwards, shall be entitled
to SIX delegates and no more; and each
OF the four legislative districts of the CITY
OF Baltimore shall be entitled to the num-
Der of delegates to which the largest conn
ty shall or may be entitled under the afore.
gong apportionment, and the General As
sembly shall have the power to provide by
law, from time to time, for altering and
changing the boundaries of the existing
legislative districts of the City of Balti-
more, so as to make them as near as
NAV be of equal population; but said dis
trlct shall always consist of contiguous
territory.
SEC. ,. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid That the said fore
gong section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution, shall at the next
election for members of the General As
sembly of this State, to be held on the
tuesday next after the first Monday in
the month of November, nineteen hun
bred and one, be submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof, for their adop-
ton or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
rectlons contained in Article H. of the
Constitution of this State; and at the said
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by bal
lot: 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, 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 Il, of the Constitution.
Approved April 7. 1900.
CHAPTEn 469.
AN ACT to amend section two of Article
of the Constitution of the State.
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-fifths
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
state, and If adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided, said section shall supersede and
stand in the place and stead of section
two of Article 8 of said Constitution.
2. The City of Baltimore shall be divid.
ed into four legislative districts as near
as may be of equal population and of con
lative. districts of Baltimore City, as they
may from time to time be laid out, in ac-
cordance with the provisions hereof, and
each county in the State, shall he entitled
to one Senator, who shall be elected by
the qualified voters of the said legislative
districts of Baltimore City, and of the
counties OF the. State, respectively, and
lol lOuI years lTOm UDe GATE
of his election, subject to the classification
of Senators hereafter provided for
SIC. =. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the said
foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall at
the next election for members of the Gen
eral Assembly of this State, to be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in the month of November, nineteen hun
dred 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 this State; and at the said
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by bal
lot, 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, and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made
to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, az d.
rected by the said Fourteenth Article Of
the Constitution.
Approved April Z, 1900.
Now, THEREFORE,, j, JOHN WALTER
SMITH, Governor of the State of Mary
land, in pursuance of the provisions Of
section one of Article fourteen of the Con-
stitution of the State, do hereby order and
direct that a copy of said bills proposing
said Constitutional Amendments be Dub-