The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-09-23
CHAPTER 90.

CHAPTER 49,
An ACT to amend Section / of Article | 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 it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland lthree-tlfths of all
the members OF each of the two Houses con-
cUrrinEl. That the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Section | of Article | of the ConSti-
tutton Of This state, and II adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof, as herein
provided, II shall Supersede and stand in
place and Stcad OF section of said Article !.
section Al elections by, the people
Shai, be- ~ ballot Every male citizen of
the United States. whether native born or
naturaliAed, of the age of q years or mp
wards, WHO has resided In this state for one
year aud in the Legislative district of i3ati-
more city or in the county Iii which he may
offer TO vote for SIX months next preceding
the election, ana who moreover is duly reg
!s'crrd as a 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
HtorS, Delegates or other officers, then, to
cntltie person to woe for such officer, he
must bave been resident of that part OF
the county or city which Shall form part
of the electoral district in which he offers
election, but a person who shall have ac-
quired Il 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 a residence in the part of the
county or city to when he has removed.
Every such male citizen of the United States
having the above-prescribed qualifications
ofage and residence shall be entitled to be
registered so as to become Il qualified voter
if he be
First-A person able to read any section
of the Constitution of this State submitted
10 him by the officers of registration and to
give reasonable explanation of the same
or II 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 rst day of
January, 1859. or prior thereto, was en-
Titled 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 Iast-mcntioned person who may be
twentH-one l2ll years age or over in the
year 1906.
No person not thus qualified by coming
under some one of the above descriptions
fled voter, nor be entitled to vote.
Section 9. And be it 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 General Assembly to be
held in this state submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adop.
ZION or rejection in pursuance OF the diiec-
ton contain ed in Article X V of the Consti-
tuition, and mt 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
Amendment or " Against the ConStitu-
tional Amendment as the voters shall
elect : and Immediately after said election
due returns shall be made to the Governor
OF the vote nu said proposed amendment as
directed by the said MYTH Article of the
Cons titutIon.