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PROCLAMATION
Proposing an Amendment to the Consitu-
ton OF the State, Providing for
Absent Voting

Whereas, ut the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland. held
in the year 1918, bill WAS passed,
tO-witi Chapter 20 of said acts, pro-
posing an additional section to Arti-
Gle 1 of the Constitution OF Mary
land, to be known as Section IA, and
relating to absent voting, a.ld which
said bill Is in the words and figures
fOllOwingi
CHAPTER 20.
An Act to propose an amendment I
Article l, title, Elective Franchise. of
the Constitution of the State of Mary
land, by adding new section thereto,
to be known as Section la, the same
relating to absent voting; and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amend
ment to the qualified voters of this
state for adoption or rejection;
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of MARYLAND. tnree-iiftns
of all the members of each of the two
Houses concurring, That the following
proposed as an Amendment to Article
l, title, Elective Franchise" of the
Constitution of the State of Maryland,
to be inserted after Section1. and TO be
adopted by the legally qualified voters
of the State as herein provided. to be-
come a part of Article l of the Con-
stitution of Maryland.
Section la. The General Assembly
of Maryland shall have power TO pre-
vide by suitable enactment for voting
by qualified voters of the State nf
Maryland who are absent and engaged
in the Military or Naval Service of the
United States at the time of any cleo
ton from the ward or election district
in which they are entitled to vote, ind
for the manner in which and the time
and place at which such absent voters
may vote, and the canvass and return
of their votes.
by the authority 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 qualified
voters of the State for adoption or re-
lection, in pursuance of the directions
General Election the vote on the said
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton shall be by ballot. and upon each
words For the Constitutional Amend
ment and Against the Constitutional
Amendment" as now provided by law.
due returns shall be made to the Gov
ernor of the vote for and against said
proposed amendment as directed by
said Fourteenth Article of the Consti-
tuition, and further proceedings had in
accordance with this Article Fourteen.
Approved March %, 1918.
Now, therefore. 1. Emerson c. Har-
rington, Governor of the State of Mary
land. in pursuance of the direction con-
tanned in Section 1 of Article IA of tie
Constitution of Maryland, 10 hereby
order and direct that this Proclama-
ton, containing a full, true and cor
rect copy of the text of said Chapter
20 of the Acts of the General Assembly
OF Mary land, Session of 1918, be pub
llshed 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 in
the German language, once week fer
at least three months next preceding
the General Election to be held in the
state of MARYLAND on Tuesday, Noveln-
Der D, 1918, at which election the said
proposed amendment to the COnstftu-
ton shall be submitted in form and
manner prescribed by the General As
semhly, to the legal and qualified vot-
ers OF the State for their adoption or
rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the State of Maryland Done at
the City of Annapolis this twentieth
day OF July. nineteen hundred and
EMERSON c. HARRINGTON.
(The Great Seal
of Maryland)
BY the Governor:
THOMAS w SIMMONS,
"a Secretary of State.
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