The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-08-09

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Providing FIJI Absent Voting

WHEREAS, AT THiE JANUARY SESSION
or THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OE
MARYLAND, HELD IN THE KEAH
1913, a BILL WAS PASSED. TO VIE:
CHAPTER 20 tOF SAID ACTS, Pho
POSING AN ADDITIONAL SECTION
TO ARTICLE OF THE C0NsTIqU-
TON OF MARYLAND, no BE KNOWN
as SECTION La AND RELAT1NG TO
ABSENT VOTING. AND WHICH Said
BILL IS IN THE WORDS AND
FIGURES FOLLOWING
CHAPTER 2a
An Act tO propose .an amendment E0 AH-
ticle 1 title Elective Franchise Df fhG
Constitution Iof the State of Mary
t tRar Dy Ain Epa aa ~ sactb ff1gh
the same Relating t@ absent Toti T and
to provide for the Submission % sai4
this State for adoption or rejection.
Section II JEDI III enacted By ths General
Assembly 1f Maryland hfthG of alI
tae members u, ot zach of ,the we Hogses
ton be and the same Ia hereby proposed
as an Amendment to Article Il, title,
Elective Franchise, = OF the Constitution
OF the State. Of Maryland. to bi inserted
ton LA; the same, IL adopfel By the
legally 1qualiaed voters Of tn State as
herein provided, to becometL part OF
Article Of the Constitution n Maryland.
Section la. The General assembly Of
Maryland shall have power 10 provide by
Voters q tSa STATE IA q 5 HaryDG Who a1 az
absent and engaged i'm the Military or
Naval Service of The United States AK the
time OF any election from the ward o.
titled I'd vote, ana Ia ne manner in
which and the time and lace at which
such absent voters may v0e, and fDr the
canvass and return Df thdr votes.
Section "a. Ana be III futher enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That said fore
going5 w, MS hereby Eoposed as Cd
at the next General 44leciOn TOR Members
or Congress held i'm athif State submitted
20 the legal and qualied voters OF the
suance OF the directins contained In
Article XIV Of the Cnstitntion Of this
State, and at the sal General Election
the vote on the said poposed amendment
and upon each balSt there shall be
printed the words For the Constitu-
tional Amendment" and Against the
Constitutional Amendment" as now pro-
said election due rfurns shall be made
to the Governor H the vote for and
against said proposed amendment a.
AZ Ry SAID oqrleenfh Artcie q
had fra accordanc with said Article
Fourteen
Approved March %. 1918. N
Now, therefore M, Emerson %. Harring-
ton, Governor Offt the State Of Maryland,
in pursuance of the direction contained
in Section 4 Of Eticle IT, or the Constitu-
ton 0f Marylah, do hereby order and
direct that this Proclamation, containing
a fnT1 fr1a nfP nf fQw
OF said Chaptr 20 or the Acts OF the
General Assembly or Maryland, Session
Of 1915 be pblished1 in at least two
newspapers in each Of the counties of the
State where many may be published,
and where bit more than one may be
published, tim in that newspaper, and
City of Baltimore, one Of which snail be
in the GerIhn language, once week
for at least three months next preceding
the Genera Election to be held in the
State Of Mryland on Tuesday, Novem-
Der 5, 49,, at which election the said
proposed fnendment to the Constitution
shall be abmitted in form and manner
the legal and qualified voters or the
State FOR their adoption III rejection
Given under ny hand ana
the Great Seal CO.. the
State or Maryland Done
(The Gret Seal at tie City or Annapo-
or Marylnd) IT, this twentieth day of
July, nineteen hundred
and eighteen.
EERsON O.. HARRINGTON,
BY tho Governor:
THOMAS w. SIMMONS.
aug2-mos Secretsry Of State.