The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-09-15

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.
ANACT 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. ,
Assembly of Maryland (three-tifths of all the
members of each of the two Houses concur
ing) That the following section be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment 10
this State and If adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided, 1t
shall supersede and stand in the place and
stead of Section 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 81 years or upwards
who has resided In the State for one year and
in the Legislative district of Baltimore city
or in the county in which he may of1er TO
vote for six months next preceding the cleo
ton, 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 at all cleo
| tons hereinafter to be held in this State; and
| in case any county or city shall be so diyioed
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 part of the electoral district In which
| he offers to vote for six months next preceu-
| ing the election, but a person who snail nave
| acquired a residence in such county or city,
| emitting him to vote at amy such election.
| shall be entitled to vote In the election dis
| trict from which he removed until he shall
| have acquired a residence in the part OF the
| county or city to which he has removed
| Every such male citizen of the United states
| bn i1U the above prescribed uualfnCatlOuS OF
age and residence shall be entitled to be regis
| tered as to become a qual!hed voterii ne De;
| 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
| u reasonable explanation OF the same or
| unable to read such section Is able to under
| stand and give explanation thereof when
read to him by the registration officers: or
| Second-A person who on the FIRST day OF
| January 1869 or prior thereof was entitled
| to vote under the laws of this State or any
| other State of the United States wherein he
\ then resided or
Third-Any m ale Iineal descendant of such
| last mentioned person who may be twenty
one (21) years of age or over In the year / 700.
| No person not thus qualihed by coming
| under some one of the above descriptions
| shall be entitled to be registered az a quail
fled voter, nor be entitled TO vote.
| SECTION 2. And be 1t further enacted
| That the foregoioR section hereby proposed
| as 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-
taincd in Article XIV of the Constitution,
| and at 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 Amend ment,
| or "A ganst the Constitutional Amendment"
| as the voter shall elect; and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made to the
| Governor of the vote on said proposed amend
ment as directed by the said XIVth Article OF
the Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrosscd docu-
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con
stitution of the State of Maryland the origi-
nal of which was passed by the Senate by
yeas and nays more than threr-ffths of all
members elected voting in the affirmative on
SPENCER c. JoNDs,
President of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary OF the Senate.
This is to certify that this engrossed docu-
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con
stitution of the State of Maryland, the orlgi.
nal of which passed by the House OF
Delegates by yeas and nays, more than three
fifths of the members elected voting in the
| Aft rmative, on March 10. 1904.
GEORGE Y. EVERHART,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
} BENJAMIN L. SMITH NIT di.rL
| ANACT to amend Section 81 of Article 8
| of the Constitution of this State.
. SECTION 1. Be ii enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland (threc-titths of all the
| members of the two Houses concurriug, !
That the following section be and the same
l is hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State, and If adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof AS here
c in provided. it shall supersede and stand II
r the place and stead of Section 81 of Article !
$ of said Constitution.
r SECTION "a. No debt shall be hereafter
: contracted by the General Assembly unles!
such debt shall be authorized by law pro
: viding for the collection of an annual tax OIL
y taxes sufficient to pay the interest on sucf
!, debt as 1t falls due, and also to discharge tn,
0 principal thereof within fifteen years from thu
| time of contracting the same, and the take
h laid for this purpose shall not be repealed o.
= applied to any other object until the sait
r debt and interest thereon shall be fully dis
= charged. The credit of the state shall not II
e any manner be given or loaned to, or in ale
;. | of an individual. association or corporation
nor shall the General Assembly have tn