Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-10-22

fifths Of all members Of each If 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 De-
part nent," Of the Constitution Of this
state, and if adopted by the legally
qualified voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided. said section shall supersede and
stand IN the place and in stead Of Sec
ton 81 Of said Article Of the Consti-
tntion of Maryland.
SEC. 81. There shall be a Clerk of
each Of the said Courts of Baltimore
City, except the Supreme Bench, who
shall be elected by the legal and quail
fed voters of said city on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday OF Novem-
Der, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, and shall hold his office
for six years from the time Of his cleo
ton, and until his successor is elected
and qualified, and be re-eiigible there
TO, subject tr be removed for willful
neglect Of duty or other misdemeanor
in office, on conviction in a Court Of
Law. The salary of each of the said
Clerks shall be forty-five hundred dol
lars 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 vacancy 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 vac
aney until the general election of Del
egates 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 10 the ap-
pointment of Deputies by the Clerks of
the Circuit Courts in the counties shall
apply to the Clerks of the Courts in
Baltimore City.
SEC. 2. And be Il further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the sad
foregoing 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 $500, be submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection, in pursu-
ance of the direction contained in Ar
ticle IA of the Constitution Of this
State; and at the said election the yo g
on said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and
upon each ballot there shall be written
or printed the words For Constitu-
tional Amendment, and Against Con-
stitutional Amendment as now pro-
vided by law, and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made
to the Governor of the vote for and
against SAID proposed amendment, as
directed by the said Article IA of the
said Constitution.
Approved April 3. 1920.
Now, therefore, |, Albert C. Richie,
Governor of the State of Maryland. in
pursuance of the direction contained in
Section | Of Article Ia of the Constitu-
ton of Maryland, do hereby order and
direct that this Proclamation containing
full, true and correct copy of the text
of said Chapters 3l9 and SOS of the Acts
Of the General Assembly Of Maryland
of 1920, be published in at least two
newspapers in each of the counties of
the State where 50 many may be pub
lished and where not more than one
may be published then in that news
paper, 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 months next preceding the gen
eral election to be held in the State of
Maryland Oh Tuesday, the End day of
November, 1920. at which election the
said proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution shall be submitted ia form and
manner prescribed by the General AS
sembly. to the legal and qualified yot-
ers of the State for their adoption or
rejection.