Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-30

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
STATE, PROVIDING FOR
ABSENT VOTING.

-. :, ,hc January session OF the
General Assembly Of Maryland, neid IN
the year 1918. bill was passed. 20 va "a
Granted 90 Of said Acts, proposing an al
aisianal Secfion to Article OF the Soh-
sfitution Of Maryland. 10 be known a.
Serfion Ia and relating to absent W.T.
ing. and which said bill = IN inc VIRUS
and figures following;
CHAPTER 20.
An Aet TO propose an amendment to AT,
ti..ie title Elective Francnlse- q. ,he
constitution of the State OF Maryia "
sd,Iinr 4 new section thereto. 10 DC SHOWN
ne Section Ia the same relating 70 az
cent voting: and TO provide TOT tut SUI
mission CT said amendment &c tuc 4u"ta.
fed voters OF this State for Adoption OF
rejection.
Sa..ion /. BE il enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, three nfths or an
the members OF each OF the Two hVuses
concurring, That the following new go 80 Il
MS an Amendment to Article l. tue,
Effective Franchise of the CONSTITUTION
Of the State of Maryland. 10 be lhseEteu
after Section 1, and to be known as SEE
tion IA: the same, If adopted by the legal
IL qualified voters of the State as mere.
i'm provided. TO become part OF Arucie
of the Constitution OF Maryland
Section IA. The General Assembly @, ol
MARYLAND shall have power TO provide by
suitable enactment for ,oing by Quahneu
voters of the State of Maryland who are
absent and engaged in the Military OF
Naval Service of the United states AT ths
time of any election from the ward OF
election district in which they are entitled
to vote, and for the manner IN when anu
the time and place at which saeh aosea,
voters may vote, ana Tor the canvass anu
return of their votes.
Section . And be II further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That said forego'
ing Section hereby proposed as an amend'
ment to the Constitution, shall be at the
next General Election for Members OF
Congress held in this State submitted e
the legal and qualified voters of the state
for adoption or rejection, In pursuance o.
the directions contained in Article NV oi
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 upon each ballot
there shall be printed the words 'For the
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
the Constitutional Amendment, as now
provided by law, and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made &c
the Governor of the vote for and againsl
said proposed amendment as directed by
said Fourteenth Article of the Constitu.
ton, and further proceedings had IN ae-
cordance with said Article Fourteen.
Approved March %. 1918.
Now, therefore, l. Emerson c. Harring
ton, Governor of the State of Maryland, II
pursuance of the direction contained IL
Section / of Article Ia of the Constitution
Of Maryland, do hereby order and direct
that this Proclamation, containing a full
true and correct copy of the text of sale
Chapter 20 of the Acts of the General As
sembly of Maryland, Session of 1918, bt
published in at least two newspapers II
each of the counties of the State where 81
many may be published. and where mo-
more than one may be published, then ii
that newspaper. and in three newspaper
published In the City of Baltimore one Of
which shall be in the German language
once week for at least three months mex
preceding the General Election to be helt
Ia the State of Maryland on Tuesday
November 5, 1918, at which election the
said proposed amendment to the Consti
tuition shall be submitted In form ant
manner prescribed by the General As
sembly, to the legal and qualified voters
Of the State for their adoption or rejec
ton.
Given under my hand ant
the Great Seal of tn,
(The Great Seal State of Maryland. Don,
OF Maryland.) at the City of Annapolis
twentieth day of July
nineteen hundred ant
eighteen.
EMERSON c. HARRINGTON.
By the Governor:
THOMAS w SIMMONS,
Secretary OF State