The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-11
PROCLAMATION
Proposing an Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the State Authorized
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| Proposing an Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the State Authorized
| by Chapter 281, Acts of 1922.
| WHEREAS, At the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held in the
year 1922, an Act was passed proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of the State by
adding a new Section to Article thereof, to
follow Section 81 of said Article and to be
known as Section 5lA, and which said Act
/ is known as Chapter PSI Of the Acts of 1922,
and is in words and figures following:
CHAPTER PSI.
/ AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary
land by adding a new Section to Article 4.
/ Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, three-ffths OF all the
members of both Houses concurring, that the
following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the ConstitU-
ton of the State of Maryland and if adopted
by the legal and qualified voters thereof as
hereinafter provided, the same shall stand as
an additional section to Article of said Con-
sttution, to follow Section 81, and to be
known as Section 3lA
31A. In addition to the authority granted
to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by
the preceding section to pay to each of the
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 addition to their respective Salar-
les as the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall from time to time deem right and
proper, provided, that any such sum being
once granted snail not De diminished during
the continuance of said Judge in office.
Section 2 And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid that the said foregoing
Section hereby proposed amendment to
the Constitution, shall be, at the next gen
eral election for members of the General As
sembly to be held in this State, submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance Of the di-
rections contained in Article II Of the Con-
stituton Of this State; and at the said gen
I eral election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written
I or printed the words For the Constitutional
Amendment" and Against the Constitu-
tional Amendment" so that the voter may
elect; and Immediately after said election due
return shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
ment, as directed by said 14th Article of the
Constitution.
Approved April 18th, 1922.
Now Therefore, I, Albert C. Richie, Gov
ernor of Maryland, in pursuance of the direc-
ton contained in Section l of Article II Of
the Constitution of Maryland, do hereby or
der and direct that this Proclamation, con-
tanning full. true and correct copy of the
text of said Chapter 2Sl 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, 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 Tues
day, November 9th, 1928, at which said cleo
ton the said proposed amendment 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 re-
lection.
/ Given Under My Hand and the
(The Great Seal of Maryland. Done
Great Seal at the City of Annapolis this
of End day of July, in the year
Maryland) one thousand nine hundred
and twenty three.
| By the Governor:
ALBERT C. RITCHIE.
PHILIP B. PERLMAN. Secretary of State. %
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