The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-04

CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT to amend Section of Article l of the
Constitution of this State and to provide for
the submission of said amendment TO the quail
flied voters of this State for adoption or re-
lection.
SECTION L. Be IL enacted 6y the General Assembly
of Maryland, (three-ffths of all the members of
each of the two Houses concurring), That the
following section be and the same is hereby pro-
posed 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 i.
SECTION /. All elections by the people shall
be by ballot Every male citizen OF the U n1ted
States, whether native born or naturalized, OF
the age of q years or upwards, who has resided
in this State for one year and in the Legislative
district of Baltimore city or in the county IN
when ne may ,ac ~ and who moreove is
duly registered as a qualified voter, as pr0vloed
in this Article, shall be entitled to vote in the
ali elections hereafter to be held in this State;
and in case any county or city shall De SO oil.
vided as to form portions of different electoral
districts for the election of Representatives in
Congress, Senators, Delegates or other officers,
then, to entitle person to vote for such ofhcer
he must have been resident OF that part OF the
county or city which shall form part OF the
electoral district in which he offers 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 district from which he removed until
he shall have acquired residence IN inc
part of the county or city to which he has re-
moved. Every such male citizen of the United
States having the above prescribed qualifica-
lions 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 reason
able explanation of the same: or If unable to
read such section is able to understand and give
a reasonable explanation thereof when read to
him by the registration officers; or
Second-A person who on the first day OF jan
uary 1862 or prior thereto, was entitled to vote
under the laws of this State of any other State
Third-Any male lineal descendant of such
aforementioned person who may be twenty-one
(2D years of age or over in the year 1905.
No person not thus qualified by coming under
some one of the above descriptions shall be en-
titled to be registered as qualified voter, nor
be entitled to vote.
SECTION q And be 1t further enacted, That the
foregoing section hereby proposed as amend
ment 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 sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection in pursuance OF
Constitution. and at said election the vote on
said proposed amendment shall be by ballot, and
upon each ballot there shall be written or print
ed the words For the Constitutional Amend
ment," or Against the constitutional Amend
ment," as the voters shall elect; and immediate
ly after said election due returns shall be made
TO the Governor of the vote on said proposed
amendment as directed by the said XVIII Artt-
Gle of the Constitution.