The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-09-24
CHAPTER 5e5.

AN ACT TO amend section 81 of Article f.
title Judiciary Department of the
Constitution OF this State, and to
provide for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters OF this
State for adoption or rejection.
Section j. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. three-ffths of all
members of each OF the two houses con-
curring), That the following section be,
and the same is, hereby proposed as an
amendment to Section 81, of Article t. title
Judiciary Department of the Constitu-
ton of this State and If adopted by the
legal qualified voters thereof as herein pro-
vided, said section shall s1perSede and
stand in the place and in stead OF Section
81 of said Article of the Constitution OF
Maryland.
Sec. 81. There shall be Clerk Of each
of the said Courts of Baltimore City, ex-
cept the Supreme Bench, who shall be
elected by the legal and qualified voters of
said city ON the Tuesday next after the
| first Monday of November in the year
shall hold his office for six years from the
ltme of his election. and until his success
sor is elected and qualified, and be re-
eligible thereto. subject, to be removed for
wiIlful neglect of duty or other mtsde-
nIeanor in Office, on conviction in Court
of Law. The salary of each of the said
Clerks shall be forty-fiye hundred dollars
a year, payable only out OF the fees and
receipts collected by the Clerks of said
city. and they shah he entitled TO no other
perquisites or compensation. In case of a
vacancy i'll the Office of Clerk of any of
said Courts, the Judges of said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore city shall have power
| to ill such vacancy until the general cleo
ton of Delegates 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
ment of Dupties by the Clerks of the Cir
cult Courts in the counties shall apply to-
the Clerks of the Courts in Baltimore City
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the
A.&N g.. u \, u
going section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall, at
the next election for members of Congress
to be held on the kEuesday next after the
first Monday in the month of November,
nineteen hundred and twenty 1890, be
submitted to the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection,
in pursuance of he 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
For Constitutional Amendment and
Against Constitutional Amendment" as
now provided by law. and Immediately
made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as di-
rected by the said Article IA of the said
Constitution.
Approved April o, 1920.
Now, therefore. I, Albert C. Ritchfe,
Governor of the State-of Maryland, in pur-
suance of the direction contained In Sec
ton / of Article II of the Constitution or
Maryland, do hereby order and direct that
this Proclamation containing a full, true
aud correct copy of the text of said Chap
ters 319 and $50 of the Acts Of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1920, be pub
lshed in at least two newspapers in 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
newspaper, 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
mouths next preceding the general cleo
I ton to be held in the State OF Maryland
on Tuesday, the 2nd day of November
1920 at which election the said proposed
amendments to the Constitution shall be
submitted in form and manner prescribe
ed by the General Assembly. to the legal
I and qualified voters of the State for their
adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the
The Great Seal of Maryland. Done
Great Seal at the City OF Annapolis, this
of the 23rd day of July, nineteen
State of hundred and twenty.
Maryland ALBERT G.. RITCHIE.
By the Governor:
PRILIP B. PERLMAN,
Secretary of State.