The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-08-06
Friday. August 9th, 1920
Proclamation
Proposing Amendments to the
Constitution of the State, 1871

lative Department, Regulating the con-
pensati, Of Members of both Houses
Of the General Assembly; and Chapter
565 proposing an amendment to Section
81 OF Article of the Constitution 1.-THE
state, title "Judiciary Department.
regulating The pay OF Clerks OF Courts
and which said Chapters 319 and 500 ale
in the words and figures following:
CHAPTER 319
AN ACT to propose an amendment to
section IS of Article III, of the Con-
stitution Of the State of Maryland, +,
title Legislative Department, reg
uIati1g the compensation OF the mem
bers of both Houses of the General
Assembly Of Maryland, and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amend
ment to the Qualified voters OF the
State of Maryland for adoption or re
lection
Section /. Be 1T enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three-hfths
of all the members OF each OF the Two
: Houses cOncurring J, That the following
be and the same is hereby prorosed as
an amend ment to Section 10 ut artlclt
III of the Constitution of the State OF
Maryland.
Is The General Assembly may con-
ment the public interests may require"
for a period not longer thar ninety days;
and each member thereof shall receive
a compensation of three hundred dollars
per annum and five dollars per diem for
eyery day he shall attend the session,
but not for such days as he may be 40
sent. unless absent on account OF SICK
ness or by leave of the House OF which
he is member and he shall also receive
such mileage as may be allowed by law,
not exceeding twenty cents per mile;
and the presiding officer of each House
shall received an additional comDensa
ton Of five dollars per diem. When
the General Assembly shall be convened
by proclamation of the Governor, the
session shall not continue longer than
thirty days, and in each case the com
pensation shall be the same as herein
prescribed.
SEcTIoN2. And be 1t further enacted
By the authority aforesaid, That said a
foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of the
State tof Maryland shall, at the next
general election for Members of
Congress held in this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified
voters of the State, for their adoption
or rejection, in pursuance of the dir
ectiohs contained in Article XIV OF the
Constitution of the State of Maryland
and at the said general election the vote
on the said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and up
on each ballot there shall be printed the
words" For the Constitutional Amend
ment." and Against the Constitutional
Amendment" as now provided by law,
oil
returns shall be made to the Govern r
of the vote for aud against said pro-
posed amendment, as directed by said
Fourteen Article ofthe Constitution, and
further proceedings had in &C eordance
with said ArtiLle Fourteen
Approved April 9, 1920.
CHAPTER 565
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Ar
ticle a Judiciary Department, of the
Constitution of this State, and to pro
vide for the submission of said amend
ment to the qualified voters of this
State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION l. Be 1T enacted by the Gen
sraI Assembly of Maryland, (threeffths
Of all members of each of the two houses
concurring) 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 Constitution of this State, and
if adopted by the legal qualified voters
thereof. as herein provided, said section
shall supersede and stand in the place
and in stead of Section 81 of siad Article
of the Constitution of Maryland.
SEC 81 There shall be a Clerk of
= DaJk
City, except the Supreme Bench, who
shall be elected by the legal and quail
flied voters of said city on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday of Novem
ber, in the year eighteen hun dred AMI
sixty seven, and shall hold his Office for
six years from the time of his election,
and until his successor is elected and
qualified and be re'eligible thereto, sub
iect to be removed for willful nelect of
duly or other misdemean or in office, on
conviction in a Court of Law. The
salary of each of the said Clerks shall
be forty-fve hundred dollars year,
PAYABLE only out of the fees and receipts
= collected by the Clerks of said city, and
they shall be entitled to no other per-
ouisites OIL. or.compensation. In case of va
cency in the office 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 election of Delegates TO the
General Assembly to be held next there
after. when Clerk of said Court shall
be elected to serve for six years there
after: and the provision of this Article
in relation to disappointment of Depu-
ties by the Jerks of the Circuit Courts
in the counties shall apply to the Clerks
Dol
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted 6y
the Authority aforesaid, That the said
foregoing secton hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall, at
the next election for members of Con-
gress to be held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in the month Of
November, nineteen hundred and tweu-
ty(l920), be submitted to the legal and
oualifedlvoters thereof for their adop
ton or rejection, in pursuance of the
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 shall be
by ballot and upon each ballot there
shall be written or printed the words
"For Constitutional Amendment" and
against Constitutional Amendment"
as now provided by law, and immedi-
ately after said election due returns shall
be made to the Governor of the vote
for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by the said Article IA
Of the said Constitution,
Approved April 9, 1920.
Now, therefore, |, Albert G. Richie,
Governor of the State of Mary land, in
pursuance of the direction contained in
Section l of Article IA of the Constitu-
tion of Maryland, do hereby order and
direct that this Proclamation containing
full, true and correct copy of the text
of said Chapters 319 and 565 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Mary
land of 1920, be published in at least
two newspar rers in each of the counties
of the state where SO many may be pub
lished and where not more then one
may be published then in that news
paper, and in three newspapers published
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