PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF MARYLAND

To be submitted to the voters for ratification or rejection
at the General Election to be held in November 1960.

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CHAPTER 14
(Senate Bill 25)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section II of Article
5 of the Constitution of Maryland, title "Attorney General
and State's Attorneys", sub-title "State's Attorneys",
amending the constitutional provisions concerning the
filling of vacancies in the office of State's Attorneys to
clarify the language with respect to the filling of a va-
cancy in a county not having a resident judge, and sub-
mitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the State
of Maryland for their adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, (Three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses concurring), That the following be and
it is hereby proposed as an amendment to Section II of
Article 5 of the Constitution of Maryland, title "Attorney
General and State's Attorneys", sub-title "State's Attor-
neys", the same, if adopted by the legally qualified voters of
the State, as herein provided, to become Section II of Article
5 of the Constitution of Maryland:

SEC. II. Vacancy in office of State's Attorney.

In case of a vacancy in the office of State's Attorney, or of
his removal from the county or city in which he shall have
been elected, or on his conviction as herein specified, the
said vacancy shall be filled by the Judge or Judges resident
in the county [and] or, IF THERE BE NO RESIDENT
JUDGE, THE JUDGE OR JUDGES having jurisdiction in
the Circuit Court of the county in which the vacancy oc-
curs, or by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City for a
vacancy occurring in Baltimore City, for the residue of the
term thus made vacant.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the aforegoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of this State shall be, at the next general election, to
be held in this State in the year 1960, submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or rejection
in pursuance of directions contained in Article 14 of the