The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-08-11
CHAPTER 90.

w VII
! CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT to amend Section 1 of Article / o
| the Constitution of this State and to provid,
! for the submission of said amendment to the
! qualified voters oi this State for adoption Oh
/ rClC.tIun.
| SECTION /. BE it enacted by the Genera
! Assembly of Maryland (threc- tilthS of all the
| members OF each of the two Houses concur.
| ing,D That the following section be and the
| $amei hereby proposed rs an amendment to
! section of Article l Of the Constitution o
| this state and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof. herein provided ii
snail supsrSedc and stand in the place and
stead at Section OF said Article /.
SECTION l. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot Every male citizen of the
United States, whether native, born or uatur-
;tlized, OF the age of 81 years or upwards.
who has resided in the state for one wear and
in tie Legislative district of Baltimore city
or III the county in which he may offer to
vote for sin months next preceding The cleo
ton, and who moreover is duly registered as
a qualified voter, provided in this article
shall he entitled to vote in the ward cleo.
ton district i'll which he resides at all cleo
lions hereinafter to be held in this State; and
in case any county or city shall he divided
as to form portions of different ELECTORAL dis
trictS for the election of Representatives in
Congress, Senator's Delegates or other
officers, then, to entitlc 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 preced-
ing the election. but Il person who shall have
acquired Il residence i'll such county 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 Il residence i'll 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 he regis
tered so as to become qualified voter if he be-
First-A person able TO read any section of
the Constitution of the State submitted to
him by the officers of registration andto give
a reasonable 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
SeconG-A person who on the first day of
January, 1869 or -or thereof was entitled
to vote under the laws of this State or any
other State of the United States wherein he
then resided, or
Thrd-Any male Iineal descendant of such
aforementioned person who may be twenty
one t2l) 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 quail
fed voter. nor b. entitled to vote.
SECTION 2. And be ii further enacted.
That the foreguiog section hereby proposed
as amendment to the Constitution OF this
State shall be at the next general election for
in this State submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption
rejection in pursuance OF the direction con-
tanned in Article NV of the Constitution.
and at said election the vote on said proposed
amendment shall he by ballot and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words For the Constitute onal Am ndmcnt,"
or Against the Constitutional Amendment"
as 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 as directed by the said NlNth Article of
the Constitution.
This is to certify that this cngrossed docu-
mcnt proposing am Amendment to the Con
Stitutron of the State of Maryland, the origi-
nal of which was passed by the Senate by
yeas and nays. more than threc-tiiths OF all
members elected voting in the affirmative
March g. 1904.
SPENCER {. JONDS.
President of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary OF the Senate.
This is to certify that this engrossed docu-
mcnt proposing an Amendment to the Con
Stitution of the STATE OF Maryland, the nrlGi-
nal al which passed by the House of
Delegates by yeas and nays. more than three
fitths Of Jhc members elected voting in the
affirmative. on March 10. 1901.
GEORGE Y. ENERHART,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
BENJAMIN l.. SMITH.
Chief Clerk.
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article .
of the Constitution OF this State.
SECTIoN !. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (thrce-fiithS OF all the
members of the two Houses concurrng.l
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State. and if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as here
in provided it shall supersede and stand in
the place and stead of Section n Of Article 3
Of said Constitution.
SECTION b. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by law pro-
vidinS for the collection of an annual tax or
taxes sufficient to pay the interest on such
debt as it falls due, and also to discharge the
principal thereof within fifteen wears from the
time OF contracting the same, and the taxes
laid for this purpose shall not he repealed or
applied to any other object until the said
debt and interest thereon shall be fully dis
charged. The credit of the State shall not in
any manner he given or loaned to- or i'll aid
of an individual, association or corporation;
nor shall the General Assembly have the
power in any mode TO involve the State in
the construction ofworks ofinternalimprove-
ment, nor in granting any aid thereto which
shall involve the faith or credit of the State;
nor make any appropriation therefor except
in aid OF the construction of works of internal
improvement in the counties of st. Mary'S,
Charles and Calvert. which had no direct adj
vantage rom such works as have been here
tOforc aided by the State and provided that
such aid, advances or appropriations shall
not exceed i'll the aggregate the sum OF hve
hundred thousand dollars, and they Shailnot
appropriate the proceeds of the inter
nal Improvement companies or OF the state
tax now levied or which may hereafter he
levied to pay OF the public debt. to any other
purpose until the interest and debt are fully
paid or the sinking fund shall be equalto the
amount Ot the outstanding debit hut the
General Assembly may, without laying tax,
borrow an amount never to exceed fifty
thousand dollars to meet temporary deticien-
ces i'll the treasury, and may contract debts
20 any amount that may be necessary for the
defense of the State.
But nothing in this section or in this Const-
tuition cont tanned shall deprive the General
Assembly of the power to apportion amongst
and to appropriate to the city of Baltimore
and the several counties of the State out OF
any funds in the Treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated, sum OF moEey not exceeding
four hundred thousand dollars each year, to
De expended only in the construction and
maintenance OF public roads and highways
under and in accordance with such regula-
tons the General Assembly may from time
to time prescribe.
the authority aforesaid, That the aforcgoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall he, at the mex general
election held i'll this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection. in pursuance of the
directions cont lined in Article II OF the Con
stitution of this State, and at the said general
election the vote on said proposed amend
uent to the Constitution shall he by ballot,
and upon each ballot shall be printed the
words: "For Constitutional Amendment"
and Against Constitutional Amendment"
us now prescribed by law. and Immediately
after said election due returns shall he made
to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, As directed by
said fourteenth article Of the Constitution.
This is to certify that this cnGrossed doct =
mcnt proposing an Amendment to the Con
stitutiou of the State of Maryland the origi
nal of which was passed by the senate by
yeas and nays. more than thrce-htths OF all
the members elected vo:inSin the Affirmative
ON March ., 1904.
SPENCER c. JONES,
President of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary of the Senate.
This is to certify that this cngrosscd docu-
mcut proposing an Amendment to the Con
Stitutiou OF the state OF Maryland. the origi-
nal of which was passed by the House of
Delegates by yeas and nays, more than three.