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PROCLAMATION
Proposed Amendments
to the Constitution
Of Maryland.

WHEREAS, at the January Session of the
year CT cur Lord thousand nine hundred
and tw.lve, Acts we're passed proposing
amend~1,, nts to Section of Article l; Sec
ton 81 of Article 3; Section of Article
S; Section of Article 5; Section 81 Of
Article 4; and adding a proposed new Sec
tcn to Article 3; of the Constitution of this
State which said Acts in the following
wor,5 ), to wit:
CHAPTER 4o2.
AN ACT TO propose an amendment to Arti,
Gle of the Constitution of this State by
adding Section, to be known as 40A;
and to provide for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of thii
State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION l. BE It enacted by the General
members of each of the two Houses concur.
ring), That the following new section be and
the is hereby proposed As an amend
ment to Article 3, title Legislative Depart.
ment," of the Constitution of this State, the
same to be inserted after Section 40 and to
be numbered 4o.A, and if adopted by the
legally qualified voters thereof, as herein pro.
vided, said section shall become q part of
Article 3 of the Constitution of Maryland
40A. The General Assembly shall enact
no law authorizing private property to be
taken for public without just compensa-
or awarded by a jury, being first paid or
rendered to the party entitled to such COM
pensation, but where such property is stu
ated in Baltimore City and is desired by
this State or by the Mayor and City Council
Of Baltimore, the General Assembly may pro
Court of Record to value such property, and
that, upon payment of the amount of such
valuation to the party entitled to compensa
ton, or into Court and securing the payment
of any further sum that may be awarded by .
jury, such property may be taken.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section, hereby proposed as an amendment C
the Constitution, shall at the next ems
general election, to be held Tuesday
after the first Monday in the monti
November, 1913, be submitted to the lega ono
qualified voters thereof, for their adopt loi
rejection, in pursuance of the directon bn
tanned in Article IL of the Constitution This
State, and at the said election the on
said proposed amendment to the 9 ltior
shall be by ballot and upon each pre-
shall be written or printed the wo1 he
Constitutional Amendment" and
Constitutional Amendment" as
BY law, and Immediately after
returns shall be made to til
vote for and against said pfe5
ss directed by said Article
ton.
Approved April s, 1912.
CHAPTER 4S,
AN ACT to amend Section Article
III, title Legislative Depart Of the
Constitution of this State, and tovide for
the submission of said amendn )at to the
qualified voters of this State for .doption or
rejection.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by he General
Assembly of Maryland, (three-if of ali the
members of each of the two 1 IS concur,
ring), That the following sectjA and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section ~ of Article III, title Legislative
Department" of the Constitution of this State,
and if adopted by the legal aud qualified voter.
thereof herein provided, It shall supersede
and stand in the place and stesi of Section 81
of said Article III. ri
Sec. d. Any bill may originate in either
House of the General AssemblyFand be altered.
amended rejected by the other, bat bill
shall originate in either House during the last
ten days of the session, unless two-thirds Of
the members elected thereto shall determine
by yeas and nays; nor shall any bill become
law until it be read on three different days of
the session in each Houss. unless two-thirds
of the members elected to The house where
such bill is pending shall 30 determine by yeas
and nays. and no bill shall be read a third
time until it shall have been actually engrossed
or printed for third reading.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid That-sthe aforegoing Sec
Constitution of this State shall be at the next
general election for members of the General
Assembly of Maryland. TO be held in this
State, submitted to the legal and qualified
voters thereof for theirSadoption or rejection,
in pursuance of the directions contained in
Article XIV Of the Constitution of this State,
and at said general election the vote the
said proposed amendment shall Be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be printed
the words "For the Constitutional Amend
ment" and Against the Constitutional Amend
ment," now prescribed by law, and imme-
diately after said election due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and
against the proposed amendment as directed
by said Article XIV of the Constitution.
Approved April 8. 1912.
CHAPTER SIS
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article
4, title Judiciary Department" subtitle Part
III, Circuit Courts" 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 General
Assembly of Maryland, three-ffths of all the
members of the two houses concurrng. That
the following section be and the same is here
by proposed as>an amendment to Section FL
Of Article ~ title Judiciary Department"