Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-10-12
PROCLAMATION
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE, 1928.

CONS III UllON UT luE L, 1890
WHEREAS, at the January Session of
the General Assembly of Maryland held in
the year 1927, an Act was passed, to-wit
Chapter 379 proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of Maryland, title "Leeis-
lative Department" regulating the COM
pensation of the members of both Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland; in
words and figures as follows:
CHAPTER $40.
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sec
ton Is of Article iii, of the Constitution
of the State of Maryland, title "Legisla-
tive Department" regulating the COM
pensation of the members of both Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland and
to provide for the submission of said
amendment to the qualified voters of the
State of Maryland for adoption or rejec-
ton.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. (three-ffths of all
the members of each of the two Houses
concurrine), That the following be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment
section is of Article Ill. of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Maryland, title "Legis-
lative Department" the same if adopted by
the legally qualified voters of the State. as
herein provided, to become Section Is of
Article iii, OF the Constitution of the State
of Maryland.
IS. The General Assembly may continue
its session so long as in its judgment the
public interest may require for a period of
not longer than ninety days and each
member thereof shall receive a cOmpensa-
ton of fifteen dollars per diem for every
day he shall attend the session. but not
for such days as he may be absent, unless
absent on account of sickness or by leave
of the House of which he is a member and
he shall also receive such mileage as may
be allowed by law not exceeding twenty
cents per mile and the presiding officer
of each House shall receive an additional
compensation Of five dollars per day. When
the General Assembly shall be convened
by proclamation of the Governor, the
session shall not continue longer than thirty
days, and in such case the compensation
shall be the same as herein prescrib d.
Section 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That said afOre-
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment 10 the Constitution of the State of
Maryland shall, at the next general cleo
ton for Members of Congress held in this
State, be submitted to the legal and quail
| fled voters of the State, for their adoption or
| rejection, in pursuance of the directions
contained in Article XIV of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Maryland, and at the
said general election the vote on the said
proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, 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 proposed amendment, as directed by
said Fourteenth Article of the Constitution,
and further proceedings had in accordance
with said Article Fourteen.
Approved: April S, 1927.
Now, Therefore. /, Albert C. Richie, Gov
ernor of the State of Maryland, in pursuance
OF the direction contained in Section of
Article IA of the Constitution of Maryland,
do Hereby order and direct that this Proc
lamation containing full, true and cor
rect copy of the text of said Chapter 379
of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1927. be published in at least
two newspapers in each of the counties of
the State where so many may be pub
llshed 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 pub
lished in the German language, once a
week for at least three months next pre-
ceding the general election to be held in
the State of Maryland on Tuesday, the 9Th
day of November, 1928. at which election
the said proposed amendment to the Con
stitutiOn shall be submitted in form and
manner prescribed by the General Assem-
bly,, TO the legal and qualified voters of
the State for their adoption or rejection.
> -- Given under my hand and
the Great Seal of the State
The of Maryland. Done at the
Great Seal City of Annapolis this
OF 18th day of July in the
Maryl and. year nineteen hundred
and twenty eight.
ALBERT c. RITCHIF.
By the Governor:
DAVID c. WlNEBRENNER, Sd,
July 27-te Secretary of State