The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-08-04
CONSTITUTIONAL. AMENDMENT
PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
PROVIDING FOR FEWER
ELECTIONS"
This amendment provides tina, all State
othcers except Judges, and all county officers
elected by qualified voters shall be elected in
every fourth year for terms Of four years he
ginning with the election in November. nine.
teen hundred and twenty.sik. The terms OF
STATE and county officers 10 be elected in nine
teen hundred and twenty.ihree are reduced TO
three years, and The terms OF other elective
unieers are increased or reduced, a. necessary,
50 that their successors may be elected in nine.
teen hundred and twenty six. Terms Of officers
appointed by the Governor and by County Com.
misstoneTs are adjusted in harmony with the
pointed The General Assembly shall meet In
nineteen hundred and twenty four for a reg.
u'sr 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 chance; and the words "for Fever
Elections Amendment" and against Fewer
LECTION; Anlsndmsnt'" as now provided by
frturns shall be made TO the Governor OF the
vote Tor y'd agains; said proposed amend
inent, as directed by said Fourteenth Article
OF the Constitution, and further proceedings
had IN accordance with said Article Fourteen.
Approved April -. 1922.
CHAPTER 27s.
AN ACT TO propose amendment to Section
10 Of Article XIV of the Constitution of The
State Of Maryland, title miscellaneous. .
providing that words or phrases used in
creating public Offices and positions shah be
construed to include the feminine gender;
aud providing for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection.
Section !. he il enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland uhree.hfIhs Of all the
members Of each Of the two Houses concur
Tingl, That the following section be and the
Sang hereby, proposed IS an amendment
ton Of the State Of Maryland, title "Miscei.
laneous," the same II adopted by the legally
qualified voters OF the State, as herein pro.
vided to become Section 10 OF Article Nv OF
the Constitution Of the State Of Maryland:
Section 10. Any 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, or before the
Governor OF The State, or before any Clerk OF
any Iourt of Record ia any part Of the State
but in case an officer shall qualify out Of the
County in which he resides. an official copy Of
lis oath shall be filed and recorded in Tia
Clerks Office Of the Circuit Court Of he Coun.
~ in which he may reside, or in the Clerks
ONCE OF The Superior Court OF ibe City Of Raj
imote, IL he shall reside therein. Al word,
OF 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 zen
der unless the contrary intention is specifically
expressed.
authority aforesaid That said aforegoing sec,
ton, hereby proposed AZ an amendment to tbs
Constitution, shall be at the next general rlee
ton for Members Of the House Of Representa-
at hal Ia. fks -
70 the legal and qualified voters Of the Stat,
for adoption or rejection. in pursuance Of The
directions contained in Article XIV Of III,
Constitution OF this State, and at the saia
general election the vote on the said proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution shall be by bal
lot, and upon each ballot there shall he printed
the words For the Constitutional Amendment
and "ANainst the Constitutional mendms nj .
as now provided by Law, aud immediately Hfte,
said election due returns shall he made to IN,
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 saie
Article Fourteen.
Approved April ~, iS22.
NOW. THEREFORE,, !. ALBERT c
RtTCHIE, GOVERNOR or MARYI.AN IL
pursuance OF the direction contained in See
ton l OF Article II Of the Constitution o.
Maryland, do hereby order and direct that thu
Proclamation. containing a fui. true and cor
rect copy OF the text Of said Chapters 7, 70
IA. 227 and as u the Acts Of ihe Gener.
assembly Of Maryland of 1922. be publishe,
in at least two newspapers in each af ID,
counties Of the State where so many may b,
published and where not more than one may b,
published then in that newspaper. and in thre,
newspapers Published in the City OF baltimore
one Of which shall he published in the German