Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-09-02
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"

PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"
This amendment provides that all Sta
GERS, except jud gcs, and all county Office
-!tcted by qualified voters shall be elected
every fourth year for terms of four years /.
'inning with the election in November mir
r. n hundred and twenty-six. The terms
state and county officers to be elected in mir
EN- hun lred and twenty three are reduced
h-ee years, and the terms of other elect
ulcers are increased reduced. necessar
St mat n II successors II ay be elected in mir
TIC II hur red and TWEEN y.Six. Terms of Office
appointed by the Governor and by County Co,
nissioners' are adjusted in harmony with II
terms of the officials by whom they are a
pointed. The General Assembly shall meet
nineteen hundred and twenty four for a re
ular session, and again in nineteen hundr'
ma twertY-seven. and every two years thci
lter. Other provisions Of the Constitution al
the Laws are adjusted to harmonic with {
above changes; and the words "For Fewt
elections Amendment" and against Fewt
'iectons Amendment" as now provided
aw, and Immediately after said election du
eturns shall be made to the Governor of II
vote tor and against said proposed
nent, as directed by said Fourteenth Articl
1t the Constitut On nj '!r,her proceeding
had in accordance with said Article Fourteen
Approved April Is. 1892.
CHAPTER 27s.
w AL to propose amendment TO Section
10 of Article XIV of the Constitution of tn
State of Maryland, title miscellaneous ;
providing that words or phrases used il
creating public offices and positions shall
construed to include the feminine gender
and providing for the submission of sal
amendment to the qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection.
d.
assembly Of Maryland (three-ffths of all tn,
members of each of the two Houses concur
ring), That the following section be and tn,
SANG is hereby. proposed as an amendmen
ion of the State of Maryland, title "Miscel
aneous, the same if adopted by the legal
uahhed voters of the State as herein pr,
ided, to become Section 10 of Article XIV O.
he Constitution of the State of Maryland:
Section 10. Any officer elected or appointe,
tuition, may qualify, either according to tn,
existing provisions of law in relation to officer.
under the present Constitution, or before tn,
Governor of the State, before any Clerk OF
1ut IN case an officer shall qualify out of tho
County in which he resides. an official copy
rs oath shall be filed and recorded in the
Jerks Office of the Circuit Court of the Coun
'ffice of the Superior Court of the City of Bal
more if he shall reside therein. All word:
or phrases, used in creating public offices AM
positions under the Constitution and laws OF
MS state, which denote the masculine gender
shall be construed to include the feminine gen
der. unless the contrary intention is specifcall,
expressed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by tn.
uthority aforesaid, That said aforegoing sec
ion. hereby proposed as an amendment TO the
Constitution, shall be at the next general cleo
lion for Members of the House of Representa-
ives OF Congress held in this State submitted
to the legal and qualified voters of the State
for adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
directions contained i'll Article XIV of the
constitution of this Staee, and at the said
general election the vote on the said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be by bal
lot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed
he words For the Constitutional Amendment
nd Against the Constitutional Amendment "
rs now provided by law, and Immediately after
aid election due returns shall be made to the
Governor OF the vote for and against said pro
posed amendment, as directed by said Four
zenith Article of tho Constitution, and fur.
her proceedings had in accordance with said
Artcle Fourteen.
Approved April IS, 1922.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ALBERT C.
RICHIE, GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND, in
pursuance of the direction contained in Sec
ton l of Article IA of the Constitution OF
Maryland, do hereby order and direct that this
Proclamation. containing full, true and cor
rect copy of the text of said Chapters 7, 90
l4l, 227 and 275 of the Acts of the General
assembly of Maryland of 1922, be published
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 published in the City of Baltimore
one of which shall be published in the German