The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-08-11

printed the following synopsis OF said amend
ment under the caption of
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"
"This amendment provides that all State
officers except judges, and all county officers
elected by qualified voters shall be elected in
every fourth year for terms of four years be-
gNning with the election in November, nine.
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
officers are increased or reduced as necessary,
so that their successors may be elected in nine
teen hundred and twenty-six. Terms of officers
appointed by the Governor and by County Com
mssoners are adjusted in harmony with the
pointed. The General Assembly shall meet in
nineteen hundred and twenty-four for a reg
ular session, and again in nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, and every two years there
after. Other provisions of the Constitution and
of the Laws are adjusted to harmonic with the
above changes; and the words "For Fewer
Elections Amendment" and Against Fewer
Elections Amendment" as now provided by
returns shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by said Fourteenth Article
of the Constitution, and further proceedings
had in accordance with said Article Fourteen.
Approved April 13, 1922.
CHAPTER us.
AN ACT to propose amendment to Section
10 of Article XIV of the Constitution of the
State aof Maryland, title Miscellaneous"
providing that words or phrases used in
creating public offices 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 for adoption or rejection.
Assembly of Maryland (three-ffths of all the
members of each of the two Houses
ring), That the following section be and the
o Section e S Rfee xT Of hs
tion of the State of Maryland, title "Miscel-
laneous," the same if adopted by the legally
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 10. Amy Officer. elected 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, 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 of
his 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 Clerks
office of the Superior Court of the City of Bal
timoie, 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 aforesoing sec
tion. hereby proposed as 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
for adoption or rejection, IN pursuance Of the
directions contained in Article XIV of the
Constitution of this State, 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
ther proceedings had in accordance with said
Article Fourteen.
Approved April Is, 1922.
NOW, THEREFORE, l, ALBERT c.
RITCHIE, GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND, in
pursuance of the direction contained in Sec
ton l of Article ID 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,
l41, 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 and qualified voters of the State for
| their adoption or rejection.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND tn f.
GREAT SEAL OF MARYLAND. 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,
By the Governor;
PHILIP B. PERLMAN,
Secretary of State.