The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-09-07

AN ACT to amend Section of Article l of
the Constitution of this State and to pro-
vide for the submission OF said amendment
to the qualified voters of this State FOR
adoption or rejection.
SECTION ]. Be It capc,ed by the General is
ScUbY VI lIuWl0ad lthree-dfths of all the
members OF each Of the two Houses concur
ring. That the following section be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment
to Section of Article ! Of the Constitution
of this state. and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided,
it shall supersede and stand in place and
stead of Section Of said Article l.
SECTION /. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot. Every male citizen OF the
United States, whether native born or nat
uraliZed, of the age Of 81 wears or upwards,
who has resided in this State for one year
and in the Legislative district OF Baltimore
city or in the county in which he may offer
to vote for six months next preceding the
election, and who moreover is duly register
ed as a qualified voter, as provided in this
Article, shall be entitled to vote in the ward
OF election district IN winch ne resides at all
elections hereafter to be held in this State;
and i'll case any county or city shall be so
divided as to form portions of different cleo
tOral districts for the election OF RepreSen-
tatives in Congress, Senators. Delegates or
other officers, then to entltIe a person to
vote for such officer, he must have been
resident of that part OF the county or city
which shall form part OF the electoral dis
trict in which lie offers to vote for six months
next preceding the election, but a person
county or city, emitting him to vote at any
such election, shall be entitled to vote in the
election district from which he removed I'M
til he shall have acquired residence III the
part of the county or city to which he has
removed. Every such male citizen of the
United States having the above prescribed
qualifications of age and residence shall be
entitled to be registered so as to become
qualified voter if he be
First-A person able to read any section
of the Constitution of this State submitted
to him by the officers of registration and to
give a reas Dnable explanation of the same;
or if unable to read such section is able to
understand and give reasonable eXplana-
ton thereof when read to him by the regis
tratiOn officers; or
Second-A person who on the first day of
January. 1863 or prior thereto, was entitled
to vote under the laws of this State or of
any other State of the United States where
in he then resided; or
Third-Any male lineal descendant OF such
aforementioned person who may be twenty
one CID years or over in the year 1865.
No person ret thus qualified by coming
under some one of the above descriptions
shall he entitled to be registered as quail
fed voter nor be entitled to vote.
SECTION ,. ind be il .6ufher enacted. That
the foregoing section hereby proposed as
amendment to the Constitution of this State
shall be at the next general election for
members Of the General Assembly to be
held in this State submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption
or rejection in pursuance of the direction
contained in Article XIV of the COnStitu-
ton, and at said election the vote on said
proposed amendment shall be by ballot, and
upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words For the Constitutional
| Amendment, ;" or against the COnstitu-
tional Amendment" as the voters shall elect;
and Immediately after said election due re
turns shall be made to the Governor OF the
vote on said proposed amendment as direct
ed by the said NIVth Article of the COnSti-
tuition.
This is to certify that this engrJ ssed docu-