The citizen., 1914-07-31

bond. or by disqualification, or removal
from the county, the Governor shall appoint
a person to be Sheriff for the remainder OF
In the City OF Baltimore at the General
Election to be held In the year 1915 and every
four years thereafter, there shall be elected
in said City of Baltimore, one person who
shall be a resident of said city, above the age
OF twenty-five years, and who shall have
been at least five years preceding his election
a citizen OF this State. to the Office OF Sheriff..
He shall hold his office for four years, and
until his successor is duly elected and quail
fed shall be eligible for reelection; shali
give such bond, exercise such powers and
perform such duties as now are or may here
after be fixed by law. The Sheriff elected in
and for the City of Baltimore In November,
1918, shall be eligible for reelection.
In case of vacancy by death, resignation,
refusal to serve, or neglect to qualify, or give
bond, or by disqualification or removal from
said City, the Governor shall appoint per-
son to be Sheriff for the remainder of the
official term. The Sheriff hereafter elected
and the Sheriff elected in and for the City OF
Baltimore on the 9TH day of November, 1918,
shall from the date of his qualification re-
ceive such salary as may be fixed by law,
not to exceed six thousand dollars per year
in any case, and such expenses necessary TO
the conduct of his office. as may be fixed by
law, such salaries and expenses to be paid in
such manner and at such times as may be
prescribed by law.
Sec 2 And be il further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the aioregoing Sec
tion hereby proposed as an amendment to
next General Election for members of Con-
gress, the same being general election, to
be held in this State, submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adop-
tion or rejection, in pursuance of the direc-
tions contained in Article IA of the Constitu-
tion of this State, and at said General Elec-
tion the vote on the proposed amendment
shall be by ballot, and upon such ballot there
shall be printed the words, "For the Consti-
tutional Amendment" and against the
Constitutional Amendment" as now pre-
arIh hE1 lot nd INN 1Gdf atGly a
election 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 this Constitution, and If it
shall appear to the Governor that the ma
jority of the votes cast at said election on
said amendment were cast in favor thereof,
the Governor shall by his proclamation de-
clare the said amendment, having received
the majority of votes, adopted by the people
of Maryland as part of the Constitution
thereof, and thenceforth said amendment
shall be part of said Constitution.
Approved April l6, 1914.
Now, therefore, l, Phillips Lee Goldsbor-
ough, Governor of the State of Maryland, in
pursuance of the direction contained in Sec
tion l, of Article Ii of the Constitution of
Maryland, and In compliance with the pro-
visions of Section of the above recited Act,
do hereby order aud direct, that a copy of
said Chapter Si5 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1914 aforesaid, be
published in at least two newspapers in each
of the counties of the State and in three
newspapers published in the City of Balti-
more, one of which newspapers in the City
of Baltimore shall be published in the Ger
man language, once week for at least three
months next preceding the next General
Election for members of Congress, which
election will be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, 1914,
and at which election the said above pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution shall
be submitted, in the form and manner pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, to the
legal and qualified voters of the State for
their adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
of the state of Maryland.
Done at the City of An.
napolis, on this 18th
day of July, in the
THE Great Seal year of our Lord, one
of THOUSAND nine hun
Maryland.] dred and fourteen.
PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBORoUGH,
BY ths Governor:
ROBERT p. GRAHAM.
jy 3l-Smos Secretary of State.