Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-19
PROCLAMATION
PROPOSING An AMENDMENT To
THE CONSTITUTION or THE
STATE. PROVIDING FOR
ABSENT VOTING.

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seat voting; aud 90 provide TOT m , sea
,.fIs.Iou II said amendment Co the guam
fed voters Of this State for Adoption OF
rejection.
Se-tion 1. Re IL enacted by the General
Assembly, OF Maryland. three-ntths OF al
the members Of each of the Two new nos sse.
ton be and the same Is hereby IF0p09sssSu
gS an Amendment to Article i, tue,
Elective Franeh,se OF the I ha inserted
after Section i. and to be known as sec
lion IA: the same, II adopted by the legal
~ qualified voters OF the stats as ., n.y. :
IN provided. 10 become part OF Arucle
OF the Constitution of Maryland
Section Ia The General Assembly OF
Maryland shall have power TO proNIuS Ny
suitable enactment for ,oung Dy q uaiine Gu
absent and engaged in the Military OF
Naval Service Of the United States at the
time of any election from the wara OF
election district in which they are entitled
to vote, and for the manner In wnlcn anu
the time and place at which such absent
voters may vote, and for the canvass ana
return of their votes.
Section .. And be it 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 to
the legal and qualified voters OF the state
for adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF
the directions contained in Article NV 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 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
the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment as directed by
said Fourteenth Article of the Constitu-
ton, and further proceedings had in ac-
cordance with said Article Fourteen.
Approved March %. 1918
Now, therefore l, Emerson c. Harring-
ton. Governor of the State of Maryland, in
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 said
sembly of Maryland. Session Of 1913, be
published In at least two newspapers in
each of the counties of the State where so
many may 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 I'm 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.
November S. 1918. at which election the
said proposed amendment TO the Consti-
tuition shall be submitted in form and
manner prescribed by the General As
sembly. 70 the legal and qualified voters
OF the State for their adoption or rejec-
ton.
Given under my hand and
the Great Seal of the
THE Great Seal State of Maryland. Done
Of Maryland.l ut the City of Annapolis
twentieth day of July.
nineteen hundred and
eighteen.
EMERSON c. HARRINGTON,
By the Governor:
THOMAS W SIMMONS,
Secretary Of State.