Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-26

posing an amendment to Section 81 OF Article
. of the Constitution ofthc State, which said
bills are in the words following, TO wit:
CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT to amend Section l OF Article l of
the Constitution of this State and to provide
for tho submission of said amendment to
ton or rejection.
SECTION i. BE IL endcted 5y ne Gencfm As
SeDtbiy Qf Maryland lthree-fifths OF all the
members OF each OF the two Houses concur
ringl. Ihat the following section be aud the
same Is hereby proposed ms an. amendment to
section or Article of the Constitution of
this State, and IL adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided.
il shall supersede and stand in place and
stead of Section of said Article l.
SECTION J. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot. Every male citizen of the
United States, whether native born or nat
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 10 vote
for six months next preceding tho election.
and who moreover is duly registered as a
qualified voter, as provided in this Article,
shall be entitled TO vote in the ward or cleo
ton district in which he resides az all cleo
tions hereinafter to be held in this State; and
in case any county or city shall be so divided
as to form portions of different electoral dis
tricts for the election of representatives in
Congress, Senators, Delegates or other officers
then, to entitle person to vote for such
officer, he must have been resident OF that
part of the county or city which shall form a
part of the electoral district in which he Of
feTs to vote for SIX months next preceding
the election, but a person who shall have
acquired a residence in such county or city,
emitting him to vote at any such election,
shall be entitled to vote in the election dis
trict from which he removed until he shall
have acquired residence in the part OF the
county or city 10 which he has removed.
Every such male citizen OF the United States
age and residence shall be entitled to be reg
istered so as TO become qualified voter IL he
be.
First A person able 60 read any section of
the Constitution Of this State submitted to
him by the officers of registration and to give
a reasonable explanation of the same; or IL
unable TO read such section is able to under
stand and give explanation thereof when read
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 wherein he
then resided; or
Third-Any male lineal descendant of such
aforementioned person who may be twenty
one CID years OF age or over in the year 1906.
No person not thus qualified by coming UNI
der some one of the above descriptions shall
be entitled 10 be registered as a qualified
voter. nor be entitled TO vote.
SECTION ? dHa be IL further enacted, That
the foregoing section hereby proposed as
amendment to the Constitution of this State
bers of the General Assembly TO be held ia
this State submitted to the legal and qualified
voters thereof for their adoption or rejection
in pursuance of the direction contained i'll
Article XIV OF the Constitution, and at said
election the vote on said proposed amend
mcnt shall he by ballot. and upon each ballot
there shall be written or printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment or
Against the Constitutional Amendment as
the voters shall elect and Immediately after
said election due returns shall bc made tosthe
Governor of the vote on said proposed amend
ment as directed by the said AlNth Article
of the Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrOsscd docu-
ment proposing an Amendment TO the Constr
futon OF the state of Maryland, the original
Of which was passed by the Senate by yeas
and nays, more than tnrec-ffths Of all mem
bers elected voting IN the Affirmative. on
March 3, lnA.
SPENCER q. JONES,
President or TIE Senate.
ROBERT MOSS.
Secretayy II no Senate.
This is to certify that this cngrossed docu.
mcnt proposing an Amendment TO the Con.
stitution OF the State of Maryland. the origi
nal of which was passed 10y the House o.
Delegates by yeas aud nays. more than three
nfthS of all the members elected voting II
the affirmative. on March 10, 1904,
GEORGE Y. EvERHART,
Speaker u fts House q Delegates.