Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-08-12
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"

PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"
This amendment provides that all State
.flcerS. except Judges, and all county oiticer
elected by qualified voters shall be elected in
every fourth year for terms of four years bt
ginning with the election i'll November, nint
teen hundred and twenty-six. 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 twentysix. Terms of officer
appointed by the Governor and by County Con
miSsioners are adjusted in harmony with tn
terms of the officials by whovi they are ap
pointed. The General Assembly shall meet in
nineteen hundred and twenty four for a reg
ular session. and again in nineteen hundreG
and twenty-seven, and every two years there
after. Other provisions of the Constitution an,
OF the Laws are adjusted to harmonic with tn,
above changes; and the words For Fewe
Elections Amendment" and Against Fewe,
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 Articl
of the Constitution, and further proceeding
had IN accordance with said Article Fourteen.
Approved April 10, 1922
CHAPTER us.
Az ACT to propose an amendment 10 Sector
10 of Article XIV of the Constitution of III
State of Maryland, title Miscellaneous
providing that words or phrases used III
creating public offices and positions shalt h,
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 1. Be it enacted by the Genera
Assembly of Maryland (three-iftbs of all the
members. of each of the two Houses concur
ring), That the following section be and tn
same IS hereby proposed as an amendment,
to Section 10 of Article XIV of the Constitu
ton of the State of Maryland, title "Misce'
qualified voters Of the State, as herein pro.
vided. to become Section 10 of Article XIV Of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland:
Section TO- Any officer elected or appointed
IN pursuance of 1.-The provisions of this Cousti
tuition. may qualify, either according 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 case an officer shall qualify out of the
County in which he resides an official copy If
lis 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 Clerk,
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 aforegoing sec
ton, hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution. shall be at the next general cleo
ton for Members of the House of Representa-.
tives of Congress held in this State submitted
to the legal and qualified voters of the State
tor adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
directions contained in 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
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. as directed by said Four.
teenth Article of the Constitution and fur.
Their proceedings had in accordance with said
Article Fourteen.
Approved April Is. 1922.
NOW, THEREFORE, /, ALBERT c.
RICHIE, GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND. in
pursuance of the direction contained in Sec.
ton 1 of Article IA of the Constitution of
Maryland, do hereby order and direct that this
Proclamation, containing a 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 a week for at least three months
next preceding the election to be held in the
State of Maryland, on Tuesday, November 9TH,
1922, at which said election the said proposed
amendments to the Constitution Of the State
shall be submitted in the form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, to the
legal ard qualified voters of the State for
their adoption rejection.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE
GREAT SEAL. OF MARYLAND. Done a:
the City of Annapolis, this 2sth day of
July, in the year OF Lord One Thou.