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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 313.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article four of the

constitution of this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, Three-fifths of all the members of the two houses

Amend-

concurring, that the following section, be, and the same is

ment to
the Consti

hereby proposed as an amendment to the constitution of this

tution

State, and if adopted by the legal and qualified voters

thereof, as herein provided, the same shall supercede and

stand in the place of section thirty -nine of article four of

said constitution.

SEC. 39. The General Asseably shall as often, as it may

Additions

think the same proper and expedient, provide by law for

Judge of
Supreme

the election of an additional judge of the Supreme Bench of

Bench

Baltimore City, and whenever provision is so made by the

General Assembly, there shall be elected by the voters of

said city another judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore

City, who shall be subject to the same constitutional pro-

visions, hold his office for the same term of years, receive

the same compensation and have the same persons as are, or

shall be provided by the constitution, or laws of this State,

for the judges of said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, and

the General Assembly may provide by laws, or the Supreme

Bench by its rules, for requiring causes in any of the courts

of Baltimore City to be tried before the court without a jury,

unless the litigants or some one of them shall within such

reasonable time or times as may be prescribed, elect to have

their causes tried before a jury. And the General Assembly

may reapportion, change or enlarge the jurisdiction of the

several courts in said city.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authority afore-

said, That the said foregoing section hereby proposed as an

Submission

amendment to t-he constitution shall be, at the next general

to vote of
people.

election to be 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 general elec-

tion the vote on said proposed amendment to the constitution

shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be writ-

ten or printed the words "For the Constitutional Amend-

ment," or "Against the Constitutional Amendment," as the

voter may 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 constitution.

Approved April 4th, 1892.