The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-29
CHAPTER 5@.

AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article A.,
title Judiciary Department of the
Constitution Of this State, and to
! provide for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of this
| State for adoption or rejection.
/ Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
| Assembly OF Maryland. three-ffthS of all
members of each of the two houses ;con-
curfing), That the following section be-
and the same is, hereby proposed as an
amendment to Section 81 of Article 4. title
Judiciary Department" OF the Constitu-
ton of this State, and if adopted by the
1 legal qualified voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided, said section shall supersede and
stand in the place and in stead of Section
81 of said Article of the Constitution OF
Maryland.
Sec. 81. There shall be a Clerk of each
of the said Courts of Baltimore City, ex-
cept the Supreme Bench, who shall be
elected by the legal and qualified voters of
said city ON the Tuesday next after the
first Monday of November, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty seven, and
shall hold his Office for six years from the
lime of his election. and until his success
sor is elected and qualified, and be re-
eligible thereto. subject to be removed for
meanor in office, on conviction in a Court
| of Law. The salary of each OF the said
Clerksi shall be forty five hundred dollars
I a year, payable only out of the fees aud
receipts collected by the Clerks of said
city, and they shall be entitled 10 no other
perquisites or compensation. In case of a
|
! said Courts, the Judges of said Supreme
! Bench of Baltimore City shall have power
to fill such y;lcancy until the general cleo
/ ton of Delegates to the General Assembly
/ to be held next thereafter, when Clerk
| of said Court shall be elected to serve for
/ six years thereafter; and the provisions
/ of this Article in relation to the appoint
ment of Dupties by the Clerks of the Cif
cult Courts in the counties shall apply 10
/ the Clerks of the Courts in Baltimore City
| Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the
Authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall, at
| the next election for members of Congress
to be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month of November
nineteen hundred and twenty d920) be
Submitted to the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection
| in pursuance of he direction contained in
Article II of the Constitution of this State;
and at the said election the vote on said
| proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by Aallot, ana upon each ballot
there shall be written or printed the words
| Against 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 proposed amendment, as di-
rected by the said Article IA of the said
| Constitution.
Approved April 0, 1920
Now, therefore. I, Albert c. Richie
Governor of the State of MARYLAND, i'm pur-
suance of the direction contained in Sec
ton / of Article Il of the Constitution of
Maryland, do hereby order and direct that
/ this Proclamation containing q full. true
and correct copy of the text of said Chap
tiers $40 and go of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1920, be pub
/ lished 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 pub
lished in the City, of Baltimore, one of
4 which shall be published in the German
! language, once a week for at least three
months next preceding the general cleo
/ ton to be held in the State OF Maryland
on Tuesday, the End day of November
1920, at which election tile sCid proposed
4 amendments to the Constitution shall he
I submitted in form and manner preserib-
ed by the General Assembly. TO the legal
i and qualified voters of the State for their
adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the
The Great Seal of Maryland Done
/ Great Seal ut the City of annapolis, this
of the 23rd day of July, nineteen
/ State of hundred and twenty
i Maryland ALBERTO. RITCHIE
4 BY the Governor:
PRILIP b. PERLMAN,
Secretary of State