The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-15

AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article 4,
title y judiciary Department OF the
Constitution of this State, and to
proyIue Tor the submission OF said
amendment to tile qaa.ltied voters of this
State tor adoption q rejection.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. three hItnS of all
members OF each OF Tie eM0 houses con-
curr1ng), That the following section be,
and the same Is, hereby proposed as an
amendment to Section 81, u Article 4, title
Judiciary Department" OF the Constitu-
ton of this State, and il adopted by the
legal qualified voters thes eof, rs herein pro-
vided, said section shan 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 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
llme of his election. and until his success
sor is elected and qualified, and be re-
beligible thereto. subject to be removed for
willful neglect OF duty or other mfsde-
meanor III office, on conviction in a Court
of Law. The salary of each of the said
Clerks shall be fortyfive 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
perquisites or compensation. In case of a
vacancy in the office of Clerk of any of
said Courts, the Judges of said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City shall have power
to ill such vacancy until the general cleo
ton of Delegates to the General Assembly
to be held next thereafter, when a 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.
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 1920, 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
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 Immediately
after said election due returns shall be
made TO the Governor of the vote for and
against saidS proposed amendment, as di
rected by the said Article IA of the said
Constitution.
Approved April 9, 1920.
Now, therefore. l, Albert c. Richie,
Governor of the State of Maryland, in pur-
suance of the direction contained in Sec
ton 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 Chap
ters 80 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
which shall be published in the German
language, once a week for at least three
mouths next preceding the general cleo
tion to be held in the State of Maryland
on Tuesday, the End day of November
1920, at which election the said proposed
amendments to the Constitution shall be
submitted in form and manner preScrib-
ed by the General Assembly. to the legal
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 at the City of Annapolis this
of the 23rd day of July, nineteen
State of hundred and twenty.
Maryland ALBERT c. RITCHIE.
BY the Governor:
PRILIP B. PERLMAN,
Secretary Of State