The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-08-27
PROCLAMATION
Promising Amendments to the Constitution of the State 1920

of the Constitution of this State, ana
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 iadArticle
of the Constitution of Maryland.
Sec. 81 There shall be Clerk OF
each of the said Courts of Baltimore
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
Der, in the year eighteen hundred 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
ject to be removed for willful nelect of
duly or other misdemeanOr in office, on
conviction in Court of Law. The
salary of each Of the said Clerks shall
be forty.five 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.
Quisites 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 Euntil the
general election sof 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 appointment of Depu.
ties by the Clerks of the Circuit Courts
in the counties shall apply to the Clerks
ofthe Courts in Baltimore City.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted By
the Authority aforesaid, That the said
foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall, at
the next election for members of Com
gress to be held on the Tuesday next
| after the first Monday in the month of
November, nineteen hundred and tweu-
ty(1920), be submitted to the legal and
qualifiedlvoters thereof for their adop-
tion 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
f'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 ID
of the said Constitution,
Approved April 8, 1920.
Now, therefore, l, Albert G.. Ritchie,
Governor of the State of Maryland, in
pursuance of the direction contained in
Section 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 newspapers in each of the counties
of the state where so many may be pub
lished and where not more then one
NAV be published then in that news
paper, and in three newspapers published
in tHe City of Baltimore, one of which
shall be published in the German lang
uape. once a week for at least three
months next preceding the general elec-
tion to be held in the State of Maryland
on Tuesday, the End of November,
1920, at which election the said propos-
ed amendments to the Constitution
shall be submitted in form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, to
the legal and qualified voters of the
State for their adoption or rejection.
-- Given under my hand
THE and the Great Seal Of
GREAT SEAL the State of Marland.
OF THE Done at the City of
STATE OF Annapolis. this 23rd day
MARYLAND of July, nineteen huns
--- dred and twenty.
ALBERT G. RIToHIE.
BY the Governor:
PHILIP B. PERLMAN,
Secretary of State.