The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-06-21
CHAPTER 469.
AN ACT to amend section two of Article OF
the Constitution of the State.

AN ACT to amend section two Of Article 3 OF
the Constitution of the State.
SECTION /. Be It enacted by the General ~
sembly Of Mdryland, (three-hfths OF al the
membe of the two Houses concurrfng,l 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 d ana
said section shall supersede and stand in the
place and stead of section two OF Article D OF
said Constitution.
four legislative districts as 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 pc
laid out, In accordance with the provisions
hereof, and each county in the State, shall be
entitled to one Senator, who shall pc eiecteo
districts Of Baltimore City, and of the counties
of the State, respectively, and shall serve Tor
four years from the date Of his election. SUD 1
ject to the classification of Senators hereafter
provided for.
SEC. q And he It further enacted By the Gttthor
fty aforesaid, That the said foregoing section
stitution shall at the next election for members
of the General Assembly of this State, 70 De
held on the Tuesday next after the first Nom
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 balloG tnere snau
be written or printed the words, "For the Con-
stitutional Amendment" or Against the Con;
| stitutional Amendment" as the voter snail
| elect, and Immediately after said election que
returns shall be made to the Governor OF the
| vote for and against said proposed amendment,
| as directed by the said Fourteenth Article OF
| the Constitution.
Approved April 7, 1900.
Now, THEREFORE, I, JOHN WALTER SMITH.
Governor of the State of Maryland. in pursu-
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 80 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 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.
| rT Given under my hand and
| THp GREAr the Great Seal of Maryland.
| Done at the City of Annap-
| DEAL o' oils on the 18th 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.