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876 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 2T
Messrs. — NEGATIVE.
President Chesley Harrison Mudd Warfield
Archer Cooper Holmead Norris Zihlman
Bennett Frick Legg Ogden Total—14
Amendment proposed by Mr. Frick:
No. 19—"After Section 18 of the printed Bill add a new
section to be known as Section 19 and to read as follows:
'Section 19. And be it further enacted, That at the general
election to be held in this State on November 6, 1917, this
Act shall be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of the
State for their approval or disapproval. Upon each of the
ballots used at said election throughout the State there shall
be printed in a separate column the title of this Act, and
underneath said title there shall be printed on separate lines,
with a space opposite for the voter's mark, the words "For
Baltimore City Extension" and "Against Baltimore City Ex-
tension, " in a manner similar to that in which constitutional
amendments are submitted. The votes cast for Baltimore city
extension and against Baltimore city extension, respectively,
shall be returned to the Governor in the manner prescribed
with respect to proposed amendments to the Constitution, and
the Governor shall proclaim the result of the election; and if
it shall appear that a majority of the votes cast upon this
Act were for Baltimore city extension the Governor shall,
by his proclamation, declare that this Act, having^ received
a majority of the votes cast thereon, has been approved by
the people of Maryland, and thereupon this Act shall go into
effect. But if a majority of the votes cast as said election
upon this Act throughout the State shall have been cast
against Baltimore city extension, and the Governor, by his
proclamation, shall so declare, then this Act shall not go into
effect. '"
Amendments to Amendment No. 19, proposed by Mr. Du-
vall:
"Amend the title as follows: strike out the period after
the words 'Anne Arundel county, ' in said title, and in lieu
thereof insert the following: 'and providing for submitting the
question of such extension to the qualified voters of Baltimore
and Anne Arundel counties, ' "
"After the word 'that, ' in line 2, Section 1, page 1, add the
following: 'if a majority of the persons residing within that
portion of the territory proposed by this Act to be annexed,
embraced within the limits of Baltimore county, voting at the
election hereinafter" provided for, shall vote in favor of city
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