The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-10-07
CHAPTER 96.

AN ACT to amend Section l of Article l of
the Constitution of this State and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amend
ment to the qualified voters of this State
for adoption or rejection.
Section |. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-tifths of all
the members of each of the two Houses con-
curring) That the following section be and
the same Is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Section of Article of the Consti
tuition of this state and If adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof as herein
provided, it Shall supersede and stand in
place and stead OF section l OF said Article /.
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 up
wards, who has resided in this State for one
year and in the Legislative district of Bati-
more city or i'll the county III which he may
offer TO vote for SIX months next preceding
the election, and who moreover Is duly reg
istered as qualified voter, as provided in
this Article, shall be entitled to vote in the
ward or election district in which he re-
sides at all elections hereafter to be held
in this state; and in case any county or
city shall be so divided as to form portions
of different electoral districts for the cleo
ton OF Representatives in Congress, SEN
atorS, Delegates or other officers, then, TO
entitle person 10 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 be offers
to vote for six months next preceding the
election, but person who shall have ac-
quired a 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 when he has removed.
Every such male citizen of the United States
having the aboNe-preScribed qualifications
of age ana 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 a reasonable explanation of the same:
or If unable to read such section IS able to
understand and give reasonable eXplana-
ton thereof when read to him by the regis
tratiOn officers or
Second-A person who on the first day of
January, 1862, or prior thereto, was en-
titled 10 vote under the laws OF this State
or of any other state of the United States
wherein he then resided or
Thtrd-Any male lineal descendant of
such laSt-mentioned person who may be
twenty.one CD years ofaGc or over in the
year 1906
No person not thus qualified by coming
under some one of the above descriptions
shall be entitled to be registered as quail
fled voter, nor be entitled to vote.
Section @ And be 1t further enacted
That the foregoing section hereby proposed
as amendment to the Constitution OF this
State shall be at the next general election
for members of the Gen eral Assembly to be
held in this State submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adop-
lion or rejection in pursuance of the dill &C.
tion contained In Article XIV of the ConSti-
tuition, 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 I" For the Constitutional
Amendment" or " Against the ConStitu-
tional Amendment, as the voters snail
elect and Immediately after said election
due returns shall be made to the Governor
OF the vote on said proposed amendment as
directed by the said MYTH Article OF the
Constitution.