The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-08-04

which said bills are in the words following,
to wit:
CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT to amend Section l of Article l OF
the Constitution of this State and to provide
for the submission of said amendment to the
qualified voters of tn State for adoption or
rejection.
Assembly of Maryland (threc- tifth> of all the
members of each of the two Houses concur
ing,) That the following section be and the
sameiS hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section of Article l of the Constitution of
this State and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided, it
shall SupcrSede and stand in the place and
stead Of Section l of said Article l.
Section l. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot. Every male citizen of the
United States, whether native, born rnatur-
allied. OF the age of . years or upwards.
who has resided in the State for one year and
in the Legislative district of Baltimore city
or in the county i'll which he may offer to
vote for six months next preceding the cleo
ton, and who moreover is duly registered as
4 qualified voter, as provided in this article,
shall be entitled to vote i'll the ward or cleo.
ton district in which he resides at all cleo
lions hereinafter to be held in this State; and
in case any county or city shall he so divided
as to form portions of different elcetorial dis
trictS for the election of Representatives in
Congress. Senators, Delegates or other
officers. then, to entitle person to vote for
Such ofhcer, he must nave been resident OF
that part of the county or city which shall
form part of the elector district in which
he offers to vote for six months next preced-
ing the election, but person who shall have
acquired residence in such county or CITY,
emitting him to vote at any such election
shall he entitled to vote in the election dis
trict from which he removed until he shall
have acquired residence in the part of the
county city to which lie has removed.
Every such male citizen of the United States
having the above prescribed qualifications of
age and residence shall be entitled to be regis
tered so as to become Il 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 and to 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
Second-A person who on the first day of
January, 500, or prior thereof was entitled
to vote under the laws of this State or any
other State of the nited States wherein he
then resided or
Third-Any male rineal descendant of such
aforementioned person who may be twenty
one (21l years of age or over in the year DOG.
No person not thus qualified by coming
under some one Of the above descriptions
shall be entitled to be registered Il quail
tied voter. nor be entitled TO vote.
SECTION =. And be it further enacted,
That the foregoiog section hereby proposed
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-
tanned 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 "Fo: the Constitutional Amend ment,"
or "A against the Constitutional Amendment"
the voter shall elect; and i'm mediately after
said election due returns shall be made to the
Governor of the vote on said proposed amend
meut directed by the said NINth Article of
the Constitution.
This is to certify that this cnRrosscd docu-
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con
stitution OF the State of NJ aryland the origi-
nal of which was passed by the Senate by
yeas and nays. more than thrce-tifths of all
March ), 1901.
SPENCER c. IONDS,
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