Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-24
CHAPTER J65.

AN ACT to amend Section 81 Of Article 4,
title 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 1. BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, (three- fifhs of
all members of each of the two Houses
concurriEg), 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. ana IL adopted by the
legal qualified voters thereof, as herein
provided. said section shall supersede and
stand in thu place and in stead of Section
81 of said Article of the Constitution of
Maryland
See 81. There shall be Clerk of each
of the said Courts of Baltimore city. eN-
cept the Supreme Bench. swho shall be
elected by the leg Il lnd qualified voters of
said city ut the election TO be held IN said
city OH the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of N)ysmber. in the year eighteen
hundred and siNty-seveu, and shall hold bis
office for six years from the time of his
election. and until bis successor is elected
aud qualified, and be rc-cligible thereto.
subject TO he removed for willful neglect
of duty or other mis- lemeanor in Office, on
conviction in Il Court OF Law. The salary
OF each of the said Clerks shall be, forty
live hundred 'lolll"s a yenf, payable only
out of the fees aud receipts coll ecteI by
the Clerks of said city. and hey shall be
entitled TO no other perquisites or compen-
satiOn. In case of a vacancy in the office
of Clerk of any of said Courts. the Judges
1f said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
shall have power to fill such vacancy until
General Assembly to be held next there
after when Clerk of said Court shall be
elected to serve for six years thereafter;
and the provisions of this Article in reld-
ton to the appointment of Deputies by the
Clerks of the Circuit Courts in the coun-
ties shall apply to the Clerks of the Courts
in Baltimore City.
Sec. .. 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
he next election for members of Congress
20 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 voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the direction contained in
Article II of the Constitution of this State:
at the said election the vote on said pro-
posed 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 pow pro-
vided by law. and Immediately after said
election due returns shall be made to the
Governor of tue vote for or against said
proposed amendment, as directed by the
said Article II Of the said Constitution.
Approved April Q. 1920.
Now, therefore. i, Albert &. Rltchle
Governor of the State of MARYLAND I'm pur-
suanee of the direction contained in Sec
ton ] of Article II of the Constitution of
Maryland. do hereby or sr and direct that
this Proclamation containing q full true
and correct copy OF the text Of said Chap
ters 80 and J6J Of the Acts of the General
Assembly Of Maryland Of 1920 be publish
ed in mt least two newspapers in each Of
the counties of the State where so many
may be published and where not more
than zone may be published then in that
newspaper and in three newspapers pub
lisbed I'm the City of Baltimore, one Of
which shall he published in the German
language, once week for at least three
months next preceding the generaIfeleetion
to be held in the State Of Maryland on
IsTuesday. the End day of November, 1920
at which election the said proposed amend
ments 60 the Constitution shall be submit
ted in form and manner prescribed by the
General Assembly, to the legal and quail
fed voters of the State for their adoption
or rejection.
Given under my