Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-08-30
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
PROVIDING FOR FEWER
INfuTInNc,
ELECTIONS

ELECTIONS"
This amendment provides that all State
officers. except judges, and all county Off
GERS elected by qualified voters shall be
elected in every fourth year for terms of
Tour years beginning with the election in
November, nineteen hundred and twenty
SIX. The terms of State and county Off.
ters to be elected in nineteen hundred and
twenty-three are reduced to three years
anu the terms or other elective officers are
increased or reduced as necessary, so that
their successors may be elected in nine.
teen hundred and twenty-six Terms Of
oincers appointed by the Governor and by
sorLty commissioners are adjusted in
harmony with the terms of the officials by
whom they are appointed. The General
Assembly shall meet in nineteen hundred
and twenty -four for regular session
! and again in nineteen hundred and TWEEN,
ty-seven. and every two years thereafter
osher provisions OF the Constitution and
| OF the Laws are adjusted TO harmonic
win the above changes and the words
For Fewer Elections Amendment" and
Against Fewer Elections Amendment" as
now provided by law,> and Immediately
after said election due returns shall be
made TO the Governor of the vote for and
against said PROPOSED amendment. as di
rected by said Fourteenth Article of the
constitution, and further proceedings had
In accordance with said Article Fourteen
Approved April IL, 1922.
CHAPTER 275
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sec
ton 10 of Article XIV of the Constitu-
tion of the State of Maryland. title
Miscellaneous" providing that words
or phrases used in creating public of.
fees and positions shall be construed
to include the feminine gender: and
providing for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of
the state Tor adoption. or rejection.
Section l. Be it enactefr by the General
assembly OF Maryland lthree-fifths of all
the members ,r of each of the two Houses
ana the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment to Section 10 Of Article XIV Of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland
ttle miscellaneous. the same IL adopted
| by the legally qualified voters of the State
as herein provided. to become Section 10
or Article XIV of the Constitution of the
| State of Maryland
Section TO- Any officer elected or an.
pointed in pursuance of the provisions of
this Constitution, may qualify either ac-
cordlng to the existing provisions of law
IN relation to officers under the present
constitution. or before the Governor of the
state. or before any Clerk of any Court of
record In any part of the State: but in
County in which he resides an Official
copy of his oath shall be filed and rec
orded in the Clerks office of the Circu}t
court or the County in which he may re.
sue, or In the Clerks Office of the SUPERIOR
court of the City of Baltimore If he shall
reside therein. All words or phrases rsed
IN creating public offices and positions un.
! der the Constitution and laws of fbis
state. which denote the masculine gender
snail De construed TO include the feminine
gender. unless the contrary intention is
specifically expressed. III
Sec. 2. And be 1T further enacted by the
authority aforesaid. That said aforegoinr
section. hereby proposed as an amendment.
10 the constitution. shall he at the next
general election Cor Members of the House
/ of Representatives of Congress held IN
| this State submitted to the legal and
qualined voters of the State for adopti0p
or rejection. IN pursuance of the directions
contained in Article XIV of the Copstitu-
lion OF this State. and at the said general
election the vote on the said proposed
amerdment to the Constitution shall be by
ballot. and upon each ballot there shall be
printed the words For the Constitutional.
Amendment and Against the Constitu
iional Amendment" as now provided by
law. and Immediately after said election.
due returns shall be made "a the Governor
or the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by said -Four
,eentn Article OF the Constitution. and fur
lher procedures had in accordance with
said Article Fourteen $500
Approved April H. 1922
NOW. THEREFORE. T. AIPEpT r.
RITCHlE. GOVERNOR OF Maryland.
IN pursuance of the direction contained IN
section ] of Article II of the Constitution
OF maryland. do hereby order and direct
that this Proclamation. containing n full.
true and correct copy of the text of said
chapters q, 20 al. 227 and 27j of the Acts
OF the General Assembly, of Maryland OF
w. be published in ar least two news
papers IN each of the counties of the State
where so many may be published and
where not more than one NAV he r,uh
iished then in that newspaper. and III
Ihree newspapers published in the CITY 4
baitmore, one OF which shall be pub
lished in the German language. once n
week for at least three months next pre-
ceding the election to be held in the State
nI MARYLAND ON Tuesday. November 9TH
ls22 at which said election the said pro-
rosed amendments to the Constitution of
the State shall be submitted in the form
snd manners prescribed by the General
Assembly to the legal and qualified voters
ton.
GIVEN UNDER MY UANDl
AND THE GREAT SEAL OF
MARYLAND. Done at the
tireat City of Annapolis. this 18th
Seai) day Of July. in the year of
our Lord, One Thousand Nine
Hundred and Twenty-Five.
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