Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-09-16
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"

"Thls amendment provides that all State
Iihcers, except judges, and all county officers
elected by qualified voters shall be elected IN
every fourth year for terms of four years be
ginning with the election in November, nine
teen hundred and twenty-sx. The terms OF
state and county officers to be elected in nine
teen hundred and twenty-three are reduced to
three years, and the terms of other elective
ofhcers are increased reduced, as necessary,
so that their successors may be elected in nine
teen hundred and twenty-sx. Terms of officers
appointed by the Governor and by County Com
missioners are adjusted in harmony with tn,
terms of the officials by whom they ap
pointed. The General Assembly shall meet in
nineteen hundred and twenty -four for a reg
uiar session, and again in nineteen hundred
and twenty seven, and every two years there
after. Other provisions of the Constitution and
OF the Laws adjusted to harmonic with 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 du
returns Shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by said Fourteenth Artic
of the Constitution, and further proceeding
mad IN accordance with said Article Fourteen.
Approved April Is, 1922
CHAPTER us.
AN ACT to propose an amendment 10 Section
10 of Article XIV of the Constitution of III
State of Maryland, title miscellaneous
providing that words or phrases used il
creating public Offices and positions shall y
construed to include the feminine gender;
and providing for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection
Section !. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-ffths of all TIL
members of each of the two Houses concul-
ring), That the following section be and the
to Section 10 Of Article XIV of the Constilu
ton of the, State of Maryland, title "Miscel-
ianeous," the same if adopted by the legal,
qualified voters of the State, as herein pro
vided. to become Section 10 of Article XIV of
1.-The Constitution of the State of Maryland:
Section 10. Amy officer elected or appointed
in pursuance of the provisions of this Consti
tuition. may qualify, either according to the
existing provisions Of law in relation to officers
under the present Constitution, before the
Governor of the State, or before any Clerk of
any Court of Record in any part of the State;
but in case an officer shall qualify out of the
County i'll which he resides. an official CORY of
It's oath shall be filed and recorded in the
Clerks Office of the Circuit Court OF the Coun
ty. in which he may reside, or in the Cle.k's
office of the Superior Court of the City of BAL.
timore, If he shall reside therein. All words
or phrases. used in creating public offices and
positions under the Constitution and laws of
this State. which denote the masculine gender
shall be construed to include the feminine gen
der, unless the contrary intention is specifically
expressed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That said aforegong sec.
ton, hereby proposed amendment to the
Constitution, shall be at the next general cleo
ton for Members of the House of Representa-
tves of Congress held in this State submitted
to the legal and qualified voters Of the State
for adoption rejection, in pursuance of the
direction. contained in Article XIV of the
Constitution of this Stase, 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
the words "For the Constitutional Amendment
and against 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 against said pro
posed amendment, directed by said Four
teenth Article of the Constitution, and fur
Their proceedings had in accordance with said
Article Fourteen.
Approved April 10. 1922.
NOW, THEREFORE, l, 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, 20,
l4l, 227 and 27s 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
language. once week for at least three months
next preceding the election to be held in the