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PROCLAMATION
Proposed Amendments
to the Constitution
Of Maryland.

Va AASSA J AS~
WHEREAS. at the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland. held in the
year of our Lord thousand nine hundred
and twelve, Acts were passed proposing
amendments to Section 3 of Article Il; SEC
ton ~ of Article 3; Section 9 of Article
S; Section of Article ); Section 81 OF
Article 4 and adding proposed new Sec
ton to Article 8; of the Constitution of this
Stale, which said Acts are in the following
words, to wit:
CHAPTER lo2.
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Arit
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 this
State for adoption re; lection.
SecrIoN l. Re il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, Ghree-tifths of all the
members of each OF the two Houses concur
ring). That the following new section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Articl. 5, title Legislative Depart
ment" of the Constitution of this State, the
same to be inserted at:er Section 40 and to
be numbered 40A, and if adopted by the
legally qualified voters thereof, as herein pro.
vided said section shall become a part OF
Article OF the Constitution OF Maryland
40A The General assembly shall enact
no law authorizing private property to be
taken for public without just compensa-
ton, to be agreed upon between the parties
| or awarded by 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
vide for the appointment of appraisers by
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. Q. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid That the said foregoing
section, hereby proposed amendment te
the Constitution, shall at the next ensuing
general election, to be held Tuesday next
after the first Monday in the month OF
November, 1918, be submitted to the legal
qualified voters thereof. for their adoption o,
rejection, in pursuance OF the directions con
tanned in Article Ia of the Constitution OF this
State, aud at the said election the vote on
said proposed amendment The Constitution
shall be by ballot and upon each ballot there
shalt be written printed the words For the
constitutional Amendment and Against the
Constitutional Amendment" provided
by law, and Immediately after said election due
returns shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amendment,
IS directed by said Article "a of the Constitl-
ton.
Approved April 8, 1912
CHAPTER 4e7.
| AN ACT to amend Section ~ of Article
III. title Legislative Delar;men,' of the
Constitution Of this S.a.e. and 20 provide 70,
the submission Of said amendment to the
qusiifed voters Of this State for adoption or
rejection.
Secrios 1. BE ii enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland (three ffths of all The
members of each of the two houses concer
rins}. That the following section be and The
same is hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section u of. Article III, title Legislative
Department" of the Constitution of this State.
and if. adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided it shall supersede
and stand in the place and stead of Section q
Of said Article III.
Sec. q. Any bill may originate in either
House of the General Assembly and be altered.
amended or rejected by the other. but no i'll
shall originate in either House during ihe last
ten days of the session, unless two-,hrds OF
! the members elected thereto shall so determine
by yeas and nays; nor shall any bill become
law until it be read on three different days Of
the session in each House, unless two-thirds
of the members elected to the house where
such bill is pending shall so determine by yeas
time until it shall have been actually engrossed
tor printed for a third reading
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the aforegong sec,
| ton hereby proposed as an amendment to the
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 their adoption 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
menf," prescribed by law, and imne
diately after said election due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for anil
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 Depa, tment," subtitle "Part