Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-09-22
PROCLAMATION
Proposing an Amendment
to the Constitution of
the State Authorized by
Chapter PSI, Acts of 1922

WHEREAS. At the January Session
Of the General Assembly Of Maryland.
held In the year 1929. an Act was
passed proposing an amendment 10 the
Constitution Of the State by adding q
new Section to Article thereof, to
follow Section 81 OF said Article 4 and
to be known ~ Section STA. and
which said Act II known as Chapter
2S1 Of the Acts of 1899, and Is in the
words and figures following:
CHAPTER ISL
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of
Maryland BY adding a new Section
to Article 4.
Section /. Be It enacted by the
General Assembly Of Maryland, three
flfths of all the members Of both
Houses concurrins, that the following
section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Con.
stitution Of the State Of Maryland. and
II adopted by the legal and qualified
voters thereof, as hereinafter provid-
cd. the same shall stand as an addi.
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-
Gil Of Baltimore by the preceding Sec
tiQn to pay to each Of the Judges Of
the Supreme Bench the annual sum
of five hundred dollars, authority Is
hereby given to said Mayor and City
Council to pay to each Of said Judges
such further annual sum as an addi-
ton 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 Of
said Judge in ofhoe.
Section 2. And 90 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.
lions 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-
stitutional 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, 1929.
Now, Therefore, I, Albert c. Richie,
Governor of Maryland. in pursuance o!
the direction contained in Section o.
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 PSI 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 pub
lished 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 o:
Maryland on Tuesday, November 9Th
1923, at which said election the sale
proposed amendment to the ConstitC
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 FOL
their adoption or rejection.
Given Under My Hand and tn
Great Seal of Maryland. Done at tn
City of Annapolis this End day of July
in the year one thousand nine hun
dred and twenty-three.
(The Great Seal of Maryland).
BY the Governor:
ALBERT G. RICHIE,
PHILIP B. PERLMAN.
Secretary Of State.