Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-09-21
PROCLAMATION
Proposing an Amendment
to the Constitution of
the State Authorized by
Chapter ISL, Acts of 1917

WHEREAS. At the January Session
Of the General Assembly Of Maryland,
held In the year 1873, an ACT was
passed proposing an amendment 70 the
Constitution Of the State By adding a
new Section to Article 4 thereof, 70
follow Section 81 Of said Article and
TO be known as Section STA, and
which said Act is known as Chapter
ISL Of the Acts Of 1882, and IL in the
words and figures following:
CHAPTER ISL
AN ACT to amend the Constitution OF
Maryland by adding new Section
to Article 4.
Section 1. Be II enacted by the
General Assembly Of Maryland, three
iifths OF all the members OF both
Houses concurring, that the following
section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution Of the'state OF Maryland, and
If adopted by the legal and qualified
voters thereof. as hereinafter provid-
ed. the same shall stand as an add
tional section to Article 4 OF said Con
stitution. to follow Section 81, and to
be known as Section 31A.
31A. In addition TO the authority
granted to the Mayor and City Coun.
ell Of Baltimore by the preceding Sec
ton to pay to each Of the Judges Of
the Supreme Bench the annual sum
of FIVE hundred dollars, authority is
hereby gtEen to said Mayor and City
Council to pay to each Of said Judges
such further annual sum as an add
tion to their respective salaries as the
Mayor and City Council Of Baltimore
shall from time to time deem right
and proper. provided. that any such
sum being once granted shall not be
diminished during the continuance o,
said Judge in once.
Section 2. And be It further en-
acted by the authority aforesaid. that
the said foregoing Section hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the Consti-
tuition. shall be, at the next general
election for members Of the General
Assembly to be held in this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified
voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection, in pursuance Of the direc-
tons contained in Article IA Of the
Constitution Of this State; and at the
said general election the vote on said
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed
the words For the Constitutional
Amendment" and Against the Con-
stitutionai Amendment" so that the
voter may elect; and Immediately aft
er said election due return shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for
and against said proposed amendment
as directed by said 14th Article Of the
Constitution.
Approved April 18th, 1922
Now, Therefore. |, Albert c. Richie,
Governor of Maryland, In pursuance Of
the direction contained in Section 1 Of
Article IA OF the Constitution Of Mary.
land. do hereby order and direct that
this Proclamation. containing a full,
true and correct copy of the text of
said Chapter 2S1 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 50 many may be pub
hshed and where not more than one
may be published then in that news
paper, and in three newspapers pub
lished 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 State OF
Maryland on Tuesday, November sth,
1928, at which said election the said
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton 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 the
Great Seal Of Maryland. Done at the
City Of Annapolis this And day OF July,
II the year one thousand nine Aun-
dred and twenty-three.
1.-THE Great Seal Of Msryland).
~ the Governor:
ALBERT G. RITCHIE
PHILIP 4 PERLMAN,
frf aannnaaw - 49,