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time and place at which such absent voters may vote, and for
the canvass and return of their votes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said. That said aforegoing section, hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution, shall be at the next general
election for Members of Congress held in this State submitted
to the legal and qualified voters of the State for adoption
or rejection, in pursuance of the directions contained in Arti-
cle XIV of the Constitution of this State, and at the said
general election the vote on the said proposed amendment to
the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there
shall be printed the words "For the Constitutional Amend-
ment" and "Against the Constitutional Amendment, " as now
provided by law, and immediately after said election due re-
turns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by said Fourteenth Ar-
ticle of the Constitution, and further proceedings had in ac-
cordance with said Article Fourteen.

Approved March 22nd, 1918.

CHAPTER 21.

AN ACT to provide for the audit of the dockets and other
papers of the Justices of the Peace of Charles County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That each and every Justice of the Peace of Charles
County be and is hereby directed to bring all his dockets and
other official papers to the Clerk of the Circuit Court once in
every twelve months, beginning the month of January follow-
ing the passage of this Act and continuing every January
thereafter, for the purpose of having said dockets and other
papers audited by the Clerk of said Court to ascertain the fees
earned by said Justices of the Peace of said County and the
amount, if any, due the County Commissioners thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Charles County be and are hereby directed to
pay said Clerk of the Circuit Court of Charles County the
annual sum of fifteen ($15. 00) dollars as a compensation for
such audit upon the presentation to said County Commission-
ers of a report of each and every Justice of the Peace of the