The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-08-20
CHAPTER $50.

AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article T.
title Judiciary Department OF Ne
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 l. Be 1T enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. three -fifths of all
members of each of the two houses con-
curringg 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 Const1tu-
ton OF this State, and if adopted by the
legal qualifed voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided, said section shall supersede and.
slat.u in une place and in stead of Section
81 of said Article 4 of the Constitution OF
Sec. 81. There shalIsbe a Clerk of each
of the said Courts of Baltimore city, ex7
cept the Supreme Bench, who shall De
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
1IIne of his election and until his success
scr is elected and qualified, and be re-
eligible thereto. subject to be removed for
wilIful neglect of duty or other miSde-
nleanor in Office, on CONVICTION IN Court
Of Law The salary of each OF the said
Clerks shall be forty i've hundred dollars
a year, payable only out of the fees and
receipts collected by the Clerks of said
CITY. and they Shall be entitled 10 no other
perquisites or compensation. In case of a
Vacancy in. the ONCE of Clerk of any OF
said Courts, the Judges of said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City shall have power
to fill such vacancy 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 Cir
cult Courts in the counties shall apply to
the Clerks of the Courts in Baltimore City.
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Authority aforesaid, That the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an
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 $500, be
submitted to the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection,
in pursuance of he direction contained in
Article IA of the Constitution of this State;
and at the said election the vote on said
proposed amendment to the Constitution
snail be by ballot, and upon each ballot
there shall be written or printed the words
For Constitutional Amendment and
"a gainst 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.
Governor of the State of Maryland, in pur-
suanee of the direction contained in Sec
ton 1 of Article IA of the Constitution of
do hereby order and direct that
this Proclamation containing a full, true
and correct copy of the text of said Chap
tiers $40 and $50 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 publisheds 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
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 the said proposed /
to the Constitution shall he |
submitted in form and manner prescribe I
d by the General Assembly. TO the legal /
md qualified voters of the State for their /
idoption or rejection
Given under my hand and the
The Great Seal OF Maryland. Done
treat Seal at the City of Annapolis, this +
of the 23rd day of July, nineteen
State of hundred and twenty.
Iaryland ALBERT c. RITCHIE.
~ the Governor:
PRILIP B. PERLMAN,
Secretary Of State