The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-09-29
Proclamation.

WHEREAS, at the January Session OF the
| General Assembly of Maryland, held in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and four, two bills were passed, one pro
| posing an amendment to Section l of Article
l of the Constitution of the State, the other
proposing an amendment to Section 81 of
| Article of the Constitution of the State,
which said bills are in the words following.
| to wit:
CHAPTER 90.
| AN ACT to amend Section 1 of Article / of
the Constitution of this State and to provide
| for the submission of said amendment to the
| qualified voters of this State for adoption or
rejection.
SECrIoN /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland Cthree-tifths of all the
| members of each of the two Houses concur
| ing,D 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 the place and
stead of Section l 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 natur-
allied, of the age of II years upwards.
who has resided in the State for one year AID
i'll the Legislative district of Baltimore city
or in the county in which he may offer to
vote for six months next preceding the eicc
ton, and who moreover is duly registered
a qualified voter, provided in this article.
shall be entitled to vote in the ward or clec.
ton district in which he resides at all tl,C-
tons hereinafter to be held in this State: and
| in case any county or city shall be so divided
to form portions OF different clectorial dis
tricts for the election of Representatives in
Congress, Senators. Delegates or other
officers. then, to entitlc a 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 i'll which
he offers to vote for six months next proceed
q IN "a 8,
acquired 4 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 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 reTis
tered so as to become Il qualified voter if he he.
FirSt-A person able to read any section of
the Constitution of the State submitted to
him by the officers of registration and to give
unreasonable explanation of the same; or if
unable to read such section Is able to under
stand and give explanation thereof when
read to him by the registration officers; or
Sccond-A person who on the first day OF
January, 1869, or prior thereof was entitled
to vote under the laws of this State 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 CD years of age or over In the year COG.
No person not thus qualified by coming
under some one of the above descriptions
shall be entitled to be registered "A quail
fed voter, nor be entitled to vote.
SECTION .. And he it further enacted,
That the foregoioR section hereby proposed
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 con-
tanned in Article XIV of the Constitution,
and Mt 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 "A gainst The ConStitut ional Amendment"
the voter shall elect; and Immediately after.
said election due returns shall he made to the |
Governor of the vote on said proposed amend |
ment directed by the said NINth Article of
the Constitution.
This is to certify that this cngrossed docu-
mcnt proposing Amendment to the Con- |
Stitution OF the State of Maryland. the origi- |
nal of which passed by the Senate by |
yeas and nays. more than thrce-iifthS of all |
members elected voting in the affirmative on |
March 3, 1904.
SPENCER {. JDNDS.
President OF he Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary OF the Senate.