The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-31
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 OF Arti-
Gle 3, OF the Constitution of the State.
Thirdly amending section , of Article
8, of the Constitution of the State. which
SAID bills and amendments are in words
following, to wit:
CHAPTER IS5.
AN ACT to amend section nine of Arti-
Gle 8, 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-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the
two Houses concurring) That the follow
ing section be and the same is hereby pro.
posed as an amendment to Article >, 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 may
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-five 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 APP
prove; all of said salaries to be paid out
OF the fees of the said States Attorney S
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 II, 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.
| If ta1 w no
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-ffths OF
all the members of the two Houses con
curing, 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
Article g. of salu Constitution.
SECTION A. 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
tionment 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 population Of
eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be
entitled to two delegates; and every coun
| ty having a 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 twenty-eight thousand and les.
than forty thousand souls, shall be emit
tied to four delegates; and every county
having population of forty thousand anc
less than fifty-fve thousand souls, shall bt
entitled to five delegates; and every eoun
ty having a population of fifty-fve 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 mum
Der of delegates to which the largest coun
ty shall or may be entitled under the afore
going apportionment, and the General As
sembly shall have the power to provide by
law, from time to time, for altering anc
changing the boundaries of the existing
legislative districts of the City of Balti
more, so as to make them as near al
may be of equal population; but said dis
trict shall always consist of contiguous
territory.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution, shall, at the mex
election for members of the General AS
sembly of this State, to be held on thu
Tuesday next after the first Monday IL
the month of November, nineteen hun
dred and one be submitted to the lega