Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-09-29

Section l. BE It enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland. three-nfths or all
concnrrinc. that the following section be
and the same is hereby proposes as Aa
Amendment e Section : OF Aruele >,
title. Legislative Department., OF ths
Constitution of this state. and II adopted
nv the legal qualified voters Thereon as
barein provided said section SHAH super.
sef;e and stand in the place and instead
az section / OF said Article Of the Con-
Ftitution OF Maryland 49,, .,.,,..
end publishing q t me- N ten or after the
snYfnerat ton OF the population OF tIlS
State under the authority Thereon, Inel
tjnn I'm the House of Delegates, 10 De
made on the following basis 70 wiz; .As
! zach of the several counties OF tne
sbS,,san5 souls or less, shall be entitled
TO two Delegates: and every county nav
q population OF over elShteSh t toS.sa,,S
souls shall be entitled to three Dele
gates; and every county having popu-
iation of twenty-eight thousanqu 1Ia ~ a ,v9
than forty thousand souls, shalI De Snt IL
lied to four Delegates; and every county
having a population or forty tnousdnu
shan be entitled to I'VE Delegates: and
every county having populaaon OF
sbau he entitled to six Delegates ana no
more. and each of the four Legislative
Districts OF the City of Baltimore shali
he entitled TO one Delegate for each one.
En,,n.v in the State; provided. however,
that the representation of baltimore Sles
IN the House of Delegates shall never *
Feed one-third Of the membership OF the
House Of Delegates. and, provided also,
that the representation OF Baltimore Clty
in the House Of Delegates shall never ps
less than thirty-five in numoer OF Wv VIZ
membership Of said House OF delegates
and the General Assembly shall have the
| power to provide by law, from time 20
alt
| boundaries OF the existing leslslatlve
| districts of the City of Baltimore SO as
10 make them as near as may De OF
equal nopulation. but said districts shall
| always consist of contiguous territory.
I Section 2 And be 1t further enacted
by the authority aforesaid, that the seuu
| foregoing section hereby proposed as en-
| Amendment to the Constitution, sh9ll al
| the next election for members OF the
| held on the Tuesday next after the nrs'
| Monday in the month of November, nine
| teen hundred and eleven uyiil, oe SUD
| mitted TO the legal and qualified voters
| thereof for their adoption or relectlol
| in pursuance Of the directions contalneu
| in Article il of the Constitution of this
| State: and at the said election the vote
| on the said proposed Amendment to the
| CONSTITUTION shall be by ballot, ana upoi
| each ballot shall be written or printed
| the words For the Constitutions
| amendment" and Against the Constitu-
| fional Amendment as The vote, sha.
/ tion. due returns shall be made 10 the
/ Governor of the vote for and against
| said proposed Amendment as directed by
| the said Article Ia of the said Constitu
| zion.
Approved Apr. I. 1910.
AUSTIN L. CRoTHERs.
A. p. GORMAN. JR.,
President of the Senate.
| ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Now, Therefore, I, AUSTIN L. CROTH
1 ERS, Governor of the State of Mary
| land, in pursuance of the provisions o
| Section of Article IA of the Constitu
| ton of Maryland. do hereby order an,
! hirect that copy of each of said Act
| proposing said Amendments be publish
| ed in at least two newspapers in eacl
| of the counties of the State, where :,
( many may be published, in any county
| where not more than one newspaper
| may be published, then in that newspa
| per, and i'm three newspapers published
| shall be I'm the German language ono
| Ia week for ut least three months proceed
| ing the election of 1911, at which sal,
| election said proposed amendments shall
| be submitted to the legal and Qualifie,
| Noters of the state, for their adoption o
| Given under my han,
and the Great Seal of TIN
State of Maryland.
| Done at the city o
| Great Seal) Annapolis, this first da!
| of July, in the year o
| our Lord. one thousan,
| nine hundred and eleven
| AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS.
| Governor of Maryland
BY the Gov rnor: