Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-10-07
CHAPTER 27S.

State of Maryland title miscellaneous, !"
providing that words or phrases used in
creating public offices and positions shalt be
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 l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland three-fifths of all the
members of each of the two Houses concur
ring), That the following section be and the
same is hereby. proposed as an amendment
to Section 10 of Article XIV Of the Constit,
ton of the State of Maryland, title "Miscel
laneous," the same if adopted by the legally
qualified voters of the State, as herein pro-
yided, to become Section 10 of Article XIV Of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland:
Section 10. Any officer elected or appointed
in pursuance of the provisions of this Const-
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
but in case an officer shall qualify out of the
County in which he resides, an official copy { +
lis oath shall be filed and recorded in the
Clerks Office Of the Circuit Court of the Coun
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
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
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
for adoption or rejection, In pursuance of the
m Artic st H.
Constitution of this State, and at the said
general election the vote 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 I"
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-
teenth Article Of the Constitution, and fur
Their proceedings had in accordance with said
Article Fourteen.
Approved April -, 1922.
NOW, THEREFORE, /, ALBERT C..
RITCHIE, GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND, in
pursuance of the direction contained in Sec.
ton / 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,
14i, 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
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 or rejection.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE
GREAT SEAL OF MARYI, AND. Done at
the City of Annapolis, this 18th day of
July, in the year OF our Lord, One Thou.
sand Nine Hundred and Twenty-Five.
ALBERT c. RITCHIE,
PHILIP b. PERLMAN.
Secretary of State.