The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-08-27
DROCLAMATION.
Proposing Amendments TO the GOnsti.
tuition Of the State, 1920.


Whereas, at the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held In the
year 1870, two Acts were passed, towIt;
Chapter 80 PROPOSING an amendment 70
ton Of the State, title Legislative De-
partment,n regulating the compensation
of Members of both Houses of the General
Assea,siy and. elaEIer aea pto 5Rea an an
the Constitution OF the State, title Ju7
dietary Department, regulating the pay
of Clerks Of Courts, and which said
Chapters SO and 10, are III the words and
figures following:
clIAPTER SO
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sec
ton 10 OF Article 1T Of he Constitution
tuIion Of the State Of AarylaIlds title Leg
latiye Department. regulating the com
pensation of the 1nenlbers 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 L Be II, enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, (three-nfthS OF all
memJers of each of the two Houses con-
curring) That the following be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment
TO section 15 of Article III, of the Consti-
utiot of the State of Maryland, title Leg
islatiYe Department, the same II adopted
by tnd legally aus ified voters of the State,
as herein PROVIDED, TO become Section 10
State of Maryland.
10. The General Assembly may continue
It's session so long as IN Its Judgment the
public interest may require 1Of q perlou
not longer than ninety days; and each
member thereof shall receive compensa-
ton 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 of sickness or by leave OF the
House of which he is a member and he,
shall also receive such mileage as may DE
allowed by law. not exceeding twenty cents
per mile; and the presiding officer OF each
House shall receive an additional compeh-
satiou of five dollars per diem When the
General Assembly shall be convened by
EpfOclamatIon of the Governor, the session
Shall not continue longer than thirty days
and in such case the compensation snail
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
menL 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
contained in Article XIV of the Const1tu-
ton of the State of Maryland and at the
said general election-the vote on the SAID
proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
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
/ the Governor of the vote for and gainst
/ said Fourteen Article of the Constitution,
and further proceedings had in accord
/ auce with said Article Fourteen.
Approved April 8, 1920.