Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-08-02
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS. at the January Session in the
year nineteen hundred of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, bills were passed proposing
amendments 10 the Constitution OF the State
First.-By amending section 9of Article
of the Constitution of the State.
Secondly amending section Of Article
3, Of the Constitution of the State.
Third BY amending section OF Article
3, of the Constitution OF the State, which
said bills and amendments are in words fol-
lowing, to wit:
CHAPTER 1856.
AN ACT to amend section nine of Article 5,
of the Constitution Of this State, and to
provide for the submission of said amend
ment TO the qualified voters of this State
for adoption or rejection.
Section Be it enacted by the General As
sembly Of Maryland, (three-flfths OF all the
members elected to each Of the two Houses
cOncurring,) That the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Article 5, Of the Constitution Of this
State, and il adopted by the legal and quail
fed voters thereof, herein and as by law pro-
vided, 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 shall receive such fees
and commissions or salary not exceeding three
thousand dollars, as are now or may hereaf
ter be prescribed by law; and If the States
Attorney shall receive any other fee or re-
ward than such as is or may he allowed by
law, he shall on conviction thereof, Oe re-
moved from Office; provided that tie 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 thou
aa nd MI nd Ofh OF to Al
such annual salaries cot exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars each, as the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City may authorize and APP
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 il further enacted, That
the foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment 10 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 to the legal and quail
fled voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection, in pursuance of the direction con-
tanned in Article IA of the Constitution and
at sad 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, and Immediately after
said election one return shall be made to the
Governor OF the vote on said proposed amend
ment as directed by the said Fourteenth Ar
ticle of the Constitution.
Approved April 5, 1900.
CHAPTER 432.
AN ACT to amend section four, OF Article 3
of the COnsti .ution of this State
Section l. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly Of Maryland, (three-ifths of all the
mn nharu af ha
the following section be and the same is here
by prop osed as an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of this State, and il 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 Of said Constitution.
Section a. AS soon as may be after the
taking and publishing of the National census
OF 1900, or after the enumeration of the pop
ulatiOn of this State, under the authority
thereof, there shall be an apportiOnment of
representation in the House Of Delegates, to
be made on the following basis. to wit Each
OF the several counties OF the State, having a
population of eighteen thousand souls or
less, shall be entitled to two delegates; and
every county having q population of over
eighteen thousand and less than twenty EIGHT
thousand souls, shall be entitled to three del
egatea and every county having popula-
ll0n OF twenty-eight thousand and less than
forty Thousand souls, shall be entitled to four
delegates and every county having a popu-
latiOn OF forty thousand and less than fifty
five thousand souls shall be entitled to f We
delegates; and every county having popu-
la,ion OF ffty-fve thousand souls and up
wards, shall be entitled to six delegates and
no more; and each of the four legislative
districts OF the city of Baltimore shall be en-
no. 8 Al.
The largest county shall or may be entitled
under the aforegoing apportionment, and the
General Assembly shall have the power to
provide by law, from time to time, for alter
ing and changing the boundaries of the ex-
lsting legislative districts OF the city of Bal
timore, 80 as to make them as near as may be
OF equal population; but said district shall
always consist of contiguous territory.
Sec. Q. 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 General Assembly of this
state, to be held on the Tuesday 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 this State; and at 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 Constitution
al Amendment, or against the Constitu-
uonsl 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 amend
ment as directed by the said Article IA, of
the Constitution.
Approved April IT, 1900.
CHAPTER 400.
AN ACT 10 amend section two of Article :
OF the Constitution the State.
Section /. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, (three-ffths of ali
the members OF the two Houses concurrine.
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed as an amend ment to the
Constitution OF this State, and il adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as here
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