xxxii.
ALTERATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
election, as the constitution and form of government directs, that in
such case this
act, and the alteration and amendment of the constitution and form of government
therein contained, shall be taken and considered, and shall constitute
and
be valid, as a part of the said constitution and form of government, any
thing
therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
An Act (b) to confirm an act passed at June session, eighteen
hundred and nine,
entitled, An act to alter the thirty-second and thirty-seventh
Articles of the Constitution
and Form of Government. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol.
154.
(b) November 1809, ch. 11.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That an act
passed at June session, eighteen hundred and nine, entitled, An act to
alter the
thirty-second and thirty-seventh articles of the constitution and form
of government,
shall be and the same is hereby confirmed.
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An Act (c) to alter and abolish all that part of the Constitution
which permits certain
Citizens of Annapolis to vote for Delegates for
Anne-Aundel County. Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 176.
(c) November 1809, ch. 38.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That no person residing
in the city of Annapolis shall have a vote in the county of Anne-Arundel
for delegates for the said county, and all and every part of the constitution
which enables persons holding fifty acres of land to vote in said county,
be and
is hereby abolished; provided nevertheless, that if this act shall be confirmed
by
the general assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the first
session
after such new election, according to the constitution and form of
government,
that in such case this alteration and amendment of the constitution
and form of
government, shall constitute and be valid as part thereof, and every thing
herein
contained repugnant to, or inconsistent with, this alteration and amendment,
shall be repealed and abolished.
An Act (d) to confirm an Act passed at November session, eighteen
hundred and
nine, entitled, An act to alter and abolish all that
part of the Constitution which
permits certain Citizens of Annapolis to vote
for Delegates for Anne-Arundel
County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 476.
(d) 1810, ch. 49.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act passed
at November session, eighteen hundred and nine, entitled, An act to alter
and
abolish all that part of the constitution which permits certain citizens
of Annapolis
to vote for delegates for Anne-Arundel county, be and the same is hereby
confirmed.
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An Act (e) to repeal and abolish the forty-fifth Article of
the Constitution and Form
of Government. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 218.
(e) 1809, ch. 65.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the forty-fifth
article of the constitution and form of government be and the same is hereby
repealed and utterly abolished.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall be
confirmed by the general
assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the first session after
such new
election, as the constitution and form of government directs, that in such
case
this act, and the alteration of the constitution and form of government
therein
contained, shall be taken and considered, and be valid, as a part of the
said
constitution and form of government, to all intents and purposes, any thing
therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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