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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

charge of their duties, and the protection of property shall
during the time of fires have all the powers of a policeman of
the town of Hagerstown ; the said marshal and assistant mar-
shal shall take the oath prescribed for policemen of said town,
and shall serve without pay.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 193.
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Maryland, by adding
a new section to Article four.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, three-fifths of all the members of both houses concur-

New section
added.

ring, That the following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, and if adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof, as hereinafter provided, the same shall stand as an
additional section to Article 4 of said Constitution, to follow
section 31, and to be known as section thirty-one A.
31 A. In addition to the sum of five hundred dollars, which
by the preceding section the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more is authorized to pay to each of the judges of the Supreme

Increase of
salary.

Bench of Baltimore city, the said Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore is further authorized to pay to each of said judges,
annually, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars ; pro-
vided, that the same, or any part thereof, being once granted,
shall not be diminished during the continuance of said judges
in office.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authority afore-

Election to
be held.

said, That the said foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall be, at the next general
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 14: of the Con-
stitution of this State ; and at the said general election the
vote on said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be
by ballot, and upon each ballot, there shall be written or
printed the words, "For the Constitutional Amendment," and
"Against the Constitutional Amendment," so that the voter
may elect ; and immediately after said election due return shall
be made to the Governor of the vote for and against said pro-