The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-10-28

CHAPTER SO.
AN ACT to amend Section of Article 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-
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted BIZ the General Assembly
Of Maryland, (three- 6fths OF all the members of
each of the two Houses concurring), That the
following section be and the same Is hereby pro-
posed az an amendment to Section Of Article
by the legal and qualified voters thereof, as
herein provided, it shall supersede and stand in
p 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 Il 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
which he may offer to vote for six months next
preceding the election: and who moreover is
duly registered as qualified voter, as provided
in this Article, 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 di-
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 officer,
he must have been resident of that part of the
county or city which snsl, form part OF the the
six months next preceding the election. but a
person who shall have acquired 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 the
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, 1882 or prior thereto. was entitled to vote
under the laws of this State 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 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 2. And be IL 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
the direction contained in Article XIV of the
Constitution, and at said election the vote on