ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 255.

AN ACT to amend section one, of article seven, of the constitu-

tion of this State.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

(Three-fifths of all the members of the two houses concurring,)

That the following section be and the same is hereby proposed

Proposed

as an amendment to the constitution of this State, and if adopted

amend-
ment.

by the legal and qualified voters thereof as herein provided, shall

supersede and stand in the place and instead of section one of

article seven of the said constitution.

SEC. 1. County commissioners shall be elected on general ticket

of each county by the qualified voters of the several counties of

the State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the

month of November, commencing in the year eighteen hundred

Elections.

and ninety-one; their number in each county, their compensa-

tion, powers and duties shall be such as now or may be hereafter

prescribed by law, they shall be elected at such times, in such

numbers and for such periods not exceeding six years, as may be

prescribed by law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the

said foregoing section hereby proposed as an amendment to the

constitution shall be at the next general election held in this

State, submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof for their

adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the directions contained in

article fourteen of the constitution of this State; and at the said

To submit.

general election the vote on said proposed amendment to the con-

stitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be

written or printed the words "For the constitutional amendment,"

or "Against the constitutional amendment," as the voter shall

elect, and immediately after said election due return shall be

made to the governor of the vote for and against said proposed

amendment, as directed by the said fourteenth article of the con-

stitution.

Approved April 3, 1890.