The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-29
DROCIAMATION.
Proposing amendments to the Consti-
tuition of the State. 1920.

Whereas, at the january Session of the
/ General Assembly Of Maryland, held in the
year 1920 two Acts were passed. towit:
Chapter 80 proposing an amendment to
Section 10 of Article III OF the Constftu-
i ton of the State, title Legislative De-
partment, regulating the compensation
4 of Members of both Houses of the General
/ Assembly; and Chapter $50 proposing an
amendment TO Section 81 of Article OF
the Constitution of the State, title Jul
dietary Department" regulating the pay
of Clerks of Courts and which said
4 Chapters 80 and $50 are in the words and
/ figures following:
CHAPTER 80.
AN ACT to propose an amendment TO Sec
ton 10 Of Article III. of the Constitution
/ tuition of the State of Maryland, title Leg
latiYe Department" regulating the COM
/ pensation Of the members of both
Houses of the General Assembly of
Maryland. and to provide for the sub
mission Of SAID amendment TO the quail
fed voters of the State of Maryland for
adoption or rejection.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, (three-fifths of all
memSers of each of the two Houses con-
curring), That the following be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment
to section 10 of Article Ill, of the Consti-
ution of the State of Maryland, title Leg
islatiVe Department the same if adopted
by the legally qualified voters of the State
as herein provided, to become Section ID
of Article III, OF the Constitution of the
State of Maryland.
10. The General Assembly may continue
I us session so long as in its judgment the
public interest may require for a period
not longer than ninety days; and each
member thereof shall receive Il compensa-
tion of three hundred dollars per annum
and five dollars per diem for every day
shall attend the session, but not for such
days as he may be absent unless absent
on account Ct sickness or by leave of the
House of which he is a member and he
shall also receive such mileage as may be
allowed. by law. not exceeding twenty cents
per mile; and the presiding officer of each
House shall receive an additional conpen-s
Sation of i've dollars per diem. When the
General Assembly shall be convened by.
proclamation of the Governor, the session
shall not continue longer than thirty DAYS
and in such case the compensation shall
be the same as herein prescribed.
Section 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That said afore-
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the State of
Maryland shall, at the next general cleo
ton for Members of Congress held in this
State, be submitted to the legal and quail
fed voters of the State, for their adoption
or rejection, in pursuance of the directions
contained in Article XIV of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Maryland and at the
said general election the vote on the said
proposed amendment to the Constitution
there shall be printed the words For the
Constitutional Amendment" and Again
the Constitutional Amendment" as now
provided by law, and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made to
tile Governor of the vote for and gainst
said Fourteen Article of the Constitution.
and further proceedings had in accord /
ance with said Article Fourteen
Approved April o. 1920