The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-08-06
DROCLAMATION.
Proposing Amendments to the COnsti-
tuition of the State, 1926.


Whereas, at the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held IN the
year 1920, two Acts were passed. tOwit
Chapter 80 proposing an amendment to
Sect4on 10 of Article Ill of the Constitu-
ton or the State, title Legislative De-
partment regulating the compensation
Of Members of both Houses of the General
Assembly; and Chapter 565 proposing an
amendment TO Section 81 of Article OF
the CONSTITUTION of the State, title "Ju-
dietary Department, regulating the pay
OF clerks or Courts, and which said
Chapters $40 and 565 are in the words ana
figures hollowing
CHAPTER 80.
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sec
ton 10 OF ArIIcle Ill. of the Constitution
tutiOn of the State of Maryland, title Leg
latiye Department, regulating the cont
penSation of the members of both
Houses of the General Assembly of
Maryland. and to provide for the sub
MISSION of sad amendment to the quali-
fed voters of the State of Maryland for
adoption or rejection.
Soectlon L. Be IL enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, three ffths of all
mem-ers OF eacn OF inc TWO Houses con-
curring), That the following be and the
same Is hereby proposed as AN amendment
to section ID of Article III, of the Consti-
utIon offthe State OF Maryland, title Leg
islatiye Department, the same II adopted
by the legally quallfed voters of the State,
as herein provided, TO become Section 10
of Article III, of the Constitution of the
state OF Maryland
To- The General Assembly may continue
AIS session so long as in its judgment the
pubIIcs interest may require for a period
not longer than ninety days; and each
member rnereof shall receive compensa-
ton of three hundred dollars per annum
and five dollars per diem for every day
shall attend the session, but not for Sucn
days as he. may be absent, unless absent
on account of sickness or by leave of the
house OF which he is a 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 snail receive an additional eompen-
station 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 such case the compensation shall
be the same as herein prescribed.
Section 2 And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That said afore-
going section hereby proposed as an amend
men e. 10 the Constitution of the State of
Maryland Shall, at the next general elec4.
ton for Members of Congress- held in this
States 1De submitted, TO tile legal and quail
fed voters of the State, for their adoptioni
contained in Article XIV of the Constitu7a
ton Of the State of Maryland and at the
sd id general election the vote son the said
prop0sed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
there shall be printed the words For the
Constitutional Amendment %aHd again
the constitutional AmendmeIft"e as now
provided by law, and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made to
the Governor of the vote for and gainst
said Fourteen Article of the Constitution,
and further proceedings had in accord
auce with said Article Fourteen.
Approved April 0, 1920.