The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-09-30

AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article 4, til
tie Judiciary Department" of the Constitu-
ton of this State, and to provide for the
submission of said amendment to the quail
fed voters of this State for adoption or re-
lection.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland (three-fifths of all mem
bers of each of the two houses concurring),
That the following section be, and the same is
hereby proposed amendment to Section
81, of Article A, title Judiciary Department"
of the Constitution of this State, and if adopt
ed by the legal qualified voters thereof, as
herein provided. said section shall supercede
and stand in the place and in stead of Section
81 of said Article of the Constitution of
Maryland
Sec. 81. There shall be a Clerk of each of
the said Courts of Baltimore G:t:- except the
Supreme Bench, who shall be ele ted by the
legal and qua lifted voters of said city at tire
election to be held in 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 time
of his election, and until his successor is
elected and qualified, and be re-eligible thereto
subject to be removed for wilful neglect o.
duty or other misdemeanor in Office on convic-
ton in Court of Law. The salary of each of
the said Clerks shall be forty-fve hundred dol
lars year payable only out of the fees and re-
eceipts 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 fill such vacancy un-
til the general election of Delegates to the
General Assembly to be held next thereafter.
when Clerk of said Court shall be elected to
visions of this Article in relation to 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 it further enacted by the au-
thority aforesaid, That the said foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to the
ton 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 voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection, in pursuance of the direction con-
tanned in Article Ia of the Constitution of this
proposed amendment to the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be written or printed the words For Constitu-
tlonal Amendment and Against Constitu-
tional Amendment" as now provided bv law
and Immediately after said election due returns
shall be made to the Governor of the vote for
rected by the said Article IA of the said Con-
stitution.
Now. therefore, l, Albert e. Richie, Gov
ernor of the State of Maryland in pursuance
of the direction contained in Section i of Ar
ticle 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 Chapters S19 and sos of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1920,
be published in at least two newspapers in 4
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 news
paper, and in three newspapers published in
the City of Baltimore. one of which shall be
published in the German language once week
for at least three months next preceding the
general election to be held in the State of
Maryland on Tuesday the 2nd day of Noyenn-
Der, 1920, at which election the said proposed
amendments to the Constitution shall be sub
mitted in form and manner prescribed by the
General Assembly, to the legal and qualified
voters of the State for their adoption or re-
lection.