Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-17


WHEREAS. at the Jsnuarv session n
ene General Assembly Of Maryland, held in
Ine year OF our Lord che thousand nine
hundred and four. two bllIs were passed,
one proposing an amendment to Section j
q Article / CT the Constitution Of the
state. the other proposing an amendment
@ Section 81 Of Article OF tie consiitu-
ton Of the State. which said bills are in
the words following. to wit:
CHAPTER &C.
Az ACT to amend Section Of Article /
~ ne constitution Of this State and to
provide Tor the submission OF said amend
ment % the qualified voters OF this State
ior adoption or rejection.
!. SECTION /. Be II enacted b. The General
A9ssemoIg 81 M0rglGnd lthree-1fths of all
cufrlng). That the following section be and
the same Is hereby proposed as an amend
inent 70 section Of Article OF the C0nsti-
i sotlqh % THIS state, and e adopted ~ the
regal and qualified voters thereof. as herein
provided, II shall eupersede and stand IN
Gle /.
sEcTIoy 1. An elections By the people
shall be BY ballet. Every male citizen OF
the United States. whether native born or
natnrallzed, Of the age. OF 81 years or up
wards, who has resided IN this State for one
more city or IN the county In which he may
oner 20 vote for six months next preceding
the election, and who moreover is duly req
lstered as a qualified voter, as provided Ia
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 50 divided as TO form portions
Of different electoral districts for the eIec-
ton OF Representatives IN Congress, SEN
ators, delegates or other officers. then, 10
entltle a person to vote for such officer, he
must have been resident OF that part OF
the county or city which shall form a part
Of the electoral district In which be offers
70 vote for six months next preceding the
election, but person who shall have ac-
CURED residence in such county or city,
emitting him to vote at any such election,
SHAH be entitled TO vote IN the election dis
trlct from which he removed until he shall
have acquired q residence in the part OF tie
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 be
registered so as TO become qualified voter
II 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 70
give reasonable explanation Of the same;
or II unable TO read such section is able 10
understand and give reasonable explana-
tion thereof when read TO him by the regis
tration officers or
Second-A person who on the first day Of
January. 1863, 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 aforementioned person who may be
twenty-one CID years OF age 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
fed voter. nor be entitled TO vote.
SEcTIoE .. 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-
tion or rejection in pursuance OF the direc-
ton 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 "For the Constitutional
Amendment" or against the C0nstitu-
tlonal Amendment" as the voters shall
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 XVIII Article OF the
Constitution.
This Is to certify that this engrossed
document proposing an Amendment TO the
Constitution of the State OF Maryland, the
orfpfnoI NJ which was DnSgpi by the Senate