The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-08-22
PROCLAMATION
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE. ]
VIDING FOR ABSENT VOTING.

WHEREAS, AT THE JANUARY SESS.
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
MARYLAND, HELD IN THE YEAR
a BILL WAS PASSED, TO WIT: CHI
TER % OF SAID ACTS, PROPOSING
ADDITIONAL SECTION TO ARTICLt
OF HECONSTITUTIONO OF MARYLAN
TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION IA Al
RELATING TO ABSENT YOTINr[ -
WHICH SAID BILL Is IN Thu
AND FIGURES FOLLOWING:
CHAPTER 20.
an Act to propose an amenGmeIt t,
Article !, title Effective Franchise" OF tn,
Constitution Of the State of Maryland, By
adding new section thereto. to be known
as Section ! A, the same relating to absent
voting; and to provide for the submission
of said amendment to the qualified voters
OF TINS state for adoption or rejection.
SectiOnl. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, three-f1fths of all
members OF each OF the two Houses concur
ring. mat 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 Mary land, TO be inserted after Section /,
and to be known as Section la; the same, If
adopted by the legally qualified voters of the
State as herein provided to become part
OF Article OF the Constitution of Maryland.
Section Ia. 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 alb
sent and engaged in the Military or Naval
Service of the United States at the time of
any election from the ward or election dis
trfct III 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 fer the canvass and return of their
votes.
Section 2. And be it further enacted nv
the aforesaid, That said foregoing Section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution shall be at the next General
Election for Members of Congress held in
this state submitted to the legal and qualif-
ed voters Of the State for adoption or re-
lection, in pursuance of the directions con-
tanned IN Article XIV of the Constitution of
this State, and at the said General Election
the vote on the said proposed amendment
to the Constitution shall be by ballot. and
words For the Constitutional Amendment"
ana Against the Constitutional Amend
ment" as now provided by law, and i'm
mediately 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 Four
teen.
Approved March %, 1915.
Now, therefore, |, Emerson c. Harrington,
Governor of the State of Maryland. in pur-
sua4ce of the direction contained in Sec
ton ! of Article IA of the Constitution of
Maryland 90 hereby order and direct that
this Proclamation, containing full true
and correct copy of the text of said Chapter
20 or the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, Session of 1915 be published in at
leasttwo newspapers in each of the counties
of the State where so many may be publish
ed, and where not more than one may be
published, then in that newspaper and
III three newspapers published in the
City OF Baltimore, one of which shall
be in the German language, once a
week for at least three months next preced-
ing the General Election to be held in the
State of Maryland on Tuesday, November ),
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 adop-
ton or rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
OF the State Of Maryland. Done at the City
o. Annapolis this twentieth day of July,
nineteen hundred and eighteen.
The Great Seal
of Maryland.1
EMERSON C. HARRINGTON.
By the Governor:
THOMAS W. SIMMONS,
secretary of State. = EH~ -
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