Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-10-27
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 proposing an amendment to
Section of Article of the Constitu.
ton of the State. the other proposing an
amendment 10 Section "a of Article 3 of
the Constitution of the State, which said
bills are in the words following, to wit:
CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT to amend Section / 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.
SECTION /. Belt enacted by the Gene
raj Assembly Of Maryland (three-fifths of
allthe members OF each of the two Houses
concurringl That he following section
De ana the same IS hereby proposed as
an amendment to Section / Of Article /
of the Constitution of this State. and II
adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof, as herein provided, il shall SUI
persede and stand In place and stead of
-
SECTION /. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot. Every male citizen of
the United 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 dis
trict of Baltimore city or in the county
In which he may offer TO vote for six
months next preceding the election, aud
who moreover is duly registered as a
qualified voter, as provided in this Arti-
Gle, shall be entitled to vote in the ward
or election district in which he resides
at all elections hereafter to be held in
this State; and in case any county or
city shall be so divided as to form pOr-
tons of different electoral districts for
the election of Representatives in Con-
gress, Senators, Delegates or other off,
GERS, then, to entitle a person to vote for
such officer, he must have been a resi-
dent 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
person who shall have acquired a resi-
dence 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 the part of
the county or city TO which he has re-
novel. Every such male citizen of the
United States having the above rrescrib-
ed 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 sec
ton of the Constitution of this State
submitted to him by the officers of regis
tration and to give reasonable explain
alton OF the same; or il unable to read
such section is able to understand and
give IA reasonable explanation thereof
when read to him by the registration Of
ticers; or
Second-A person who on the first day
af 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 last mentioned person who may be
twenty-one CID years Of age or over in
the year 1906.
No person not thus qualified by coming
under some one of the above descriptions
shall be entitled To he registered as a
qualified voter, nor he entitled to vote.
SECTION 2. And he it further enacted,
That the foregoing section hereby pro-
posed as amendment to the Constitution
of this State shall be at the next general
election for members of the General As
sembly TO be held in this State submitted
to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection in pursu-
ance of the direction contained IN Ar
ticle XIV of the Constitution, and at said
election the vote ON said proposed amend
ment shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words For the Constitutional Amend
ment, or Against the Constitutional
Amendment" US the voters shall elect;
and Immediately after said election due
returns shall he made To the Governor of
the vote On said proposed amendment as
directed by the said AlVth Article Of the
Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrossed
document proposing an Amendment to
the Constitution OF the State of Maryland,
the original of which was passed by the
Senate by yeas and nays, more than three
fifths of all members elected voting in the
affirmative, on March 3, 1904.
SPENCER Z. JONES,
President of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary of the Senate.