Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-10-09
1919

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the General Assembly Of Maryland. held
in the year 1871, the following Acts were
passed. providing for the submission Of
amendments TO the Constitution of the
State to the qualified voters of the state
Of Maryland tor adoption or rejection.
namely;
CHAPTER S37
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Houses cCncurriu & That the following
be and the same IS hereby proposed as
an amendment TO Section / Of Article IA
of the Constitution of the State OF
Maryland, title Amendments TO the
Constitution, the same, if adopted by
the legally qualified voters of the state,
as herein provided, to become Section l
of Article ii Of the Constitution OF the
State of Maryland,
l. The General Assembly may pro
pose Amendments TO this Constitution;
provided that each Amendment shall b"
embraced in a separate Bill embodylng
stand when amended and passed by
three fifths of all the members elected
to each Of the two Houses, by yeas and
nays, to be entered on the Journals
with the proposed Amendment The BID
or Bills proposing amendment or amend
mentS shall be published by order of
the Governor, in at least two news
papers, in each County, where so many
may be published, and whore not more
than one may be published, then in
a
papers published in the City OF Ealti-
more, once week for three weeks i'm
mc0iatclN preceding The next ensuing
general election. ~ which the proposed
amendment or amen S3'1cut> SHAH hc sab
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5eSCiCn Provided however. the Genera
Assembly may provide fer publishing
any proposed anne udmeut or amend
ments in pamphlet form. and for max
ing said pamphlets available TO the
registered voters of the State in addi-
ton to publication in the newspapers.
The votes cast for and against said pro
posed amendment or amendments,
severally, shall be returned to the Gov
ernor, in the manner prescribed in other
cases, and if it shall appear 10 the
Governor that majority of the votes
cast at said election on said amendment
or amendments, severally, were cast in
favor thereof, the Governor shall, by
amendment or amendments having re-
ceived said majority of votes, to have
been adopted by the people of Maryland
as part of the Constitution thereof, and
thencefOrth said amendment or amend
mentS shall be part of the said COnSti-
tuition. When two or more amendments
shall be submitted in manner aforesaid,
to the voters of this State at the same
election, they shall be so submitted as
that each amendment shall be voted on
separately.
Sec. > And be it further enacted,
That said aforegoing section hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitutiOn of the State of Maryland shall,
at the next general election for MEM
berS Of the General Assembly of Mary
land in November 1912, be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters of the
State, for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the directions contained
in Article II of the Constitution of the
State of Maryland. and at the said gen
eral election the vote on the said pro
posed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each bal
lot there shall he printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment
and Against the Constitutional Amend
ment", as now provided by law, and i'm
mediately after said election due returns
shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against the said proposed
amendment, as directed by said Four
teenth Article of the Constitution. and
with said Article Fourteen.
Approved: April %. 1871.
CHAPTER 494
AN ACT to amend Section II of Article
4, title Judiciary Department sub
title Part III-Circuit Courts, of
the Constitution of this State, prOvid
ing for the residential qualification
and method of selection of Associate
Judges in the Third Judicial Circuit
and to provide for the submission of
said amendment to the qualified voters
of this State for adoption or rejection.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That three
fifths of all members elected to each
of the two houses cOncurring) the fol
lowing section be and the same rs
Section p of Article 4, of the Constitu-
tion of Maryland title Judiciary De-
partment', subtitle Part III-Circuit
Courts, the same, if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof as
herein provided to become Section p of
Article 4 of the Constitution of the
State of Maryland.
81. For each of the said circuits, ex-
cepting the eighth, the second, the third,
the sixth and the seventh there shall be
a chief judge and two associate judges,
to be styled judges of the Circuit Court,
to be selected or appointed as herein
provided, and for the second circuit, the
third circuit, the sixth circuit, and the
seventh circuit, there shall be a chief
Judge and three associate judges to be
styled judges of the Circuit Court, to
be elected or appointed as herein pro-
vided. And no two of said associate
judges, for any of the said circuits,
except the third, sixth and seventh cir
cults shall, at the time of their election
or appointment or during the terms for
which they may have been elected or
appointed, reside in the same county.
If two or more persons shall be candi-
dates for associate judge in the same
county in any of the circuits, except the
third, sixth and seventh circuits, that
one only in said county shall be de-
clared elected who has the highest num-
two candidates for associate judge in
any of the circuits, except the third,
sixth and seventh circuits, residing in
the same county shall have an equal
number of votes greater than any other
candidates for associate judge in the
circuit, it shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor to order a new election for one
associate Judge; but the person residing
in any other county of the circuit and
who has the highest number of votes
shall be declared elected. The said
judges shall hold not less than two
terms of the Circuit Court in each of
the counties composing their respective
circuits, at such times as are now or
may hereafter be prescribed to which
jurors shall be summoned; and in those
held, two other and intermediate terms,
to which jurors shall not be summoned;
they may alter or fix the times for
holding any or all terms, until other
wise prescribed, and shall adopt rules
to the end that all business not requir-