The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-09-06
PROCLAMATION
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE -,
STATE, PROVIDING FOR
A RSENT VOTING

| ABSENT VOTING
| WHEREAS, at the January Session of
the General Assembly of Maryland,
held in the year 1918, a bill was pass
ed, to-wit: Chapter 30 of said Acts
proposing an additional Section to
Article l of the Constitution # Mary
land, to be known as Section la 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 l, title, "Elt Give Franchise"
If the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, by adding a 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.
S; ction ]. Be it enacted by the Cen
cral Assembly of Maryland, three ifths
If 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 l,
title ELECTIVE Franchise" of the Con-
stitution of the State of Maryland, to
be inserted after Section l, and to be
known as Section Ia; the same, if adopt
ed by the legally qualified voters of the
State as herein provided, to become
| part of Article l of the Constitution OF
| Maryland.
Section IA. The General Assembly
| of MARYLAND shall have power to pro-
vide by suitable enactment for voting
| by qualified voters of the State of Mary
| land who are absent and engaged in the
IS . ho Init nd
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 9 And be it further enacted
by the authority aforesaid, That said
| foregoing Section hereby proposed as
an amendment to the Constitution, shall
be at the next General Election for
| Numbers of Congress held in this State
| submitted to the legal and qualified
voters of the State for adoption or re-
| lection, in pursuance Of the directions
| contained in Article XIV of the Cons'i-
tuition of this State, and at the said
| General Election the vote on the said
proposed amendment to the COnstitu-
| ton shall be by BALLOT, and upon each
ballot there snail be printed the words
For the CONSTITUTIONS Amendme MT
and against the Constitutional
Amendment, as now provided by law.
| and Immediately after said election due
returns shall be made to the Governor
of the vote for and against said pro-
pcs d amendment as directed by said
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
and further proceedings had in accord
ance with said Article Fourteen.
Approved March %, 1918.
| Now, therefore, l Emerson g. Har-
riugtop. Governor Of the State of Mary
land. in pursuance Of the direction con-
tanned in Section l # Article IA or the
Constitution tf Maryland, do hereby
order and direct that this proclamation,
Containing full, true and correct copy
of the text of said Chapter ~ OF the
Acts of the General Assembly OF
Maryland, Session Of 1918, be pubishe a
in at least two newspapers In each u
the counties of the State where SO many
NAV be published, and where. not more
than one may be published, then in that
newspaper, and in three newspapers
published in the City of Baltimore, one
!, of which shall be in the German Ian
guage, once week for at least three
months next preceding the Genera
Election to be held in the State o
Maryland on Tuesday, November 3
1918. at which election the said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be
submitted in form and manner prescrb
ed by the General Assembly to thu
legal and qualified voters of the Stat
for their adoption or rejection.
Given under nv hand and the Grea
Seal of the State of Maryland. Don
at the City of Annapolis this twentieth
day of July, nineteen hundred and elgh
teen.
f (The Great Seal
e of Maryland)
; EMERSON G. HARRINGTON
| THOMAS W. SIMMONS
Secretary of State.