Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-07-17

WHEREAS. by Chapter Is of the
Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1918, as amended by
Chapter 1913 of the Acts of the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland of 1941,
the provisions of which are effective
by virtue of the adoption of the Sec
ton la of Article | of the Constitu-
ton of this State, it is provided that
whenever in time of peace or war, the
Maryland National Guard, or any of
the units thereof, the Maryland Naval
Militia, or any of the units thereof,
or any units of the armed forces of
the United States shall be called into
active service, or citizens of this
State shall be indicted into the armed
forces of the United States under any
Federal Consumption Laws, and by
reason of such circumstances, duly
qualified voters of the State are alb
sent from the ward or election dis
trict in which they reside on the day
set for any general, primary or
special election, whether Presidential,
Congressional, Judicial, State, County
or Legislative District, or any cleo
ton in Baltimore City, the Governor
may, by proclamation, published once
in no more than three newspapers in
each County and in Baltimore City,
suspend the operation of the election
laws of the State and all rules and
regulations adopted Hereunder, so far
as such laws and rules and regula-
lions are inconsistent with the pro-
visions of said Acts;
ND WHEP EAS II ic f1tY+ ba,, y,yo
vided by said Acts that whenever the
Governor shall issue such proclama-
ton, then the provisions of said Acts
authorizing voting by mail by those
therein designated, shall become eff
fective as law, and such provisions
authorize and provide the means for
duly qualified voters absent in the
military or naval service of the United
States, whose absence is directly at
tributable to the circumstances caus-
ing the issuance of the aforesaid
Proclamation, to vote by mail at all
general, primary and special cleo
tions, whether Presidential, Congress
sional, Judicial, State, County or Leg
islative or any election in Baltimore
City held subsequent to the issuance
of such proclamation and prior to the
issuance of a further proclamation
ending the suspension of the election
laws, as provided by the aforesaid
Acts;
AND WHEREAS, a State of war
does exist, and the Government of the
United States has called into service
the Maryland National Guard and the
Maryland Naval Militia, and citizens
of this State have been indicted into
the armed forces of the United States
under Federal Consumption Laws,
and, by reason thereof, duly qualified
voters of the States are absent from
the ward or election district in which
they reside, and will be so absent on
the days set for such primary, gen
eral or special elections, as aforesaid:
NOW, THEREFORE, /, HERBERT
R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR OF
MARYLAND, by virtue of the author
ity conferred upon me, as aforesaid,
by said Acts of Assembly, do hereby
suspend the operation of the election
laws of the State, and all rules and
regulations adopted Hereunder as and
to the extent authorized by said Acts
of Assembly, to the end that the pro-
visions of said Acts, authorizing and
providing the means for duly quail
fled voters absent in the military or
naval service of the United States to
vote by mail, may be and become eff
fective, as therein set forth, at all
general, primary or special elections
held subsequent to the issuance of
this proclamation and prior to the is
suance of a further proclamation end
ing the suspension of the election
laws, as provided by the aforesaid
Acts.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and caused
to be affixed the Great Seal of the
State of Maryland, at the Capitol, in
the City of Annapolis, on this 21st day
of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and forty-two.
HERBERT R. O'CONOR (Signed)
Governor
BY the Governor:
THOMAS ELMO JONES (Signed)
Secretary of State
THE GREAT SEAL