Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-10-18
PROCLAMATION.
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE, PRO-
vIDING FOR ABSENT VOTING.

Whereas. At the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held in the
year 1915, bill was passed, to-wit: Chap
Ter ~ OF said Acts, proposing an addi-
tlonal Section to Article of the Contitu-
ton of Maryland, to be known as Section
Ia and relating to Absent Voting, and
which said bill is in the words and figures
following:
CHAPTER 20.
An Act to propose an amendment to
Article |, title, Elective Franchise, :" of the
Constitution of the State OF Maryland, by
adding new section thereto, to be known
as Section la, the same relating to absent
voting; and to provide for the submission
OF said amendment to the qualified voters
OF this State for adoption or rejection.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland three fifths of all
the members of each of the two Houses
concurring, That the following new Section
be and the same is hereby proposed as an
Amendment to Article |, title, Elective
Franchise" of the Constitution of the
State OF Maryland. to be inserted after
Section !, and to be known as Section IA
the same, If adopted by the legally quail
fed voters of the State as herein provided
to become part of Article of the Con-
stitution of Maryland.
Section la. The General Assembly of
Maryland shall have power to provide by
suitable enactment for voting by qualified
voters OF the State of Maryland who are
absent and engaged in the Military or
Naval Service of the United States at the
time OF any election from the ward or
election district in which they are entitled
to vote, and for the manner in which and
the time and place at which such absent
voters may vote. and for the canvass and
return of their votes
Section z. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That said fore
gong Section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution, shall be at the
next General Election for Members of Con-
gress held in this State submitted to the
legal and qualified voters Of the State for
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
directions contained in Article XIV of the
Constitution of the State. and at the said
General Election the vote on the said pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot there
shall be printed the words "For the Con-
stitutional Amendment" and AGAINST the
Constitutional Amendment" as now pro-
vided by law, and Immediately after said
election due returns shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for and against said
proposed amendment as directed by said
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution, and
further proceedings had in accordance with
said Article Fourteen.
Approved March %, 1918.
Now, therefore. |. Emerson C. Harrine-
ton, Governor of the State of Maryland, in
pursuance Of the direction contained in
Section OF Article ID of the Constitution
OF Maryland, do hereby order and direct
that this Proclamation, containing a full,
true and correct copy of the text of said
Chapter 20 of the Acts of the General
Assembly OF Maryland. Session of 1918, be
published in at least two newspapers in
each oil the counties OF the State where so
many may be published, and where not
more than one may be published. then in
that paper, and in three newspapers pub
lished in the City of Baltimore. one of
which shall be in the German LANGUAGE.
once week for at least three months next
preceding the General Election to be held
in the State of Maryland on Tuesday. No
vember 5, 1918, at which election the said
proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be submitted in form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, to the
legal and qualified voters of the State for
their adoption or rejection.
(The Great Seal Given under my hand
and the Great Seal
of Maryland.) ofthe State of Mary
land. Done at the
City Of Annapolis
this twentieth day of
July, nineteen hun
dred and eighteen.
EMERSON C. HARRINGTON.
By the Governor:
THOMAS w. SIMMONS,
Secretary of State.
July este