The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-10-26
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WHEREAS, at the January Session of the
General Assembly Of Maryland, held i'm the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and four, two bills were passed, one propos-
ing an amendment to Section l of Article
of the Constitution of the State, the other
proposing an amendment to Section "a of
Article Of the Constitution or the State,
which said bills are in the words following,
to wit:
CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT TO amend Section of Article l OF
the Constitution Of this State and to pro-
vide for the submission ofsaid amendment
to the qualified voters OF this State for
adoption or rejection
SECTION !. Belt enacted 6U the General is
| ScHtbiH Of IulUiuud three hfths of all the
members OF each Of the two Houses concur
ring, That the following section be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment
| to Section Of Article | Of tile Constitution
! of this state, and if adopted by the legal and
| qualified voters thereof as herein provided,
! it shall Supcrsede and stand in place and
| stead of Section | OF said Article !.
SECTION |. All elections by the people
| shall be by ballot Every male citizen Of the
/ nited States, whether native born or nat
uralized, OF the age of 81 wears or upwards.
| who has resided in this State for one year
! and in the Legislative district OF Baltimore
/ city or in the county in which he may offer
| to vote for six months next preceding the
/ election, and VINO moreover is duly register
| ed as q qualified voter, as provided in this
| Article, shall be entitled to vote in the ward
/ or election district in which he resides a all
/ elections hereafter to he held in this State:
! and in case any county or city shall be so
! divided as to form portions of different cleo
| tOral districts for the election of Represen-
| tativeS in Congress, Senator's. Delegates, or
! other officers, then to entitle a person to
| vote for such officer he must have been a
! resident OF that part of the county or city
of oil Il
| trict in which he offers to vote for six months
next preceding the election, but person
| who shall have acquired a residence in such
county or city. emitting him to vote at any
such election, shall be entitled to vote in the
election district from which he removed I'M
til he shall have acquired a residence in 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 be registered so as to become a
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 reas unable explanation of the same;
or II unable to read such section is able to
understand and give 4 reasonable eXplana-
ton thereof when read to him by the regis
| tratiOn officers; OF
Second-A person who on the first day of
| January, 1869, or prior thereto, was entitled
to vote under the laws of this State or of
any other State of the United States where
| in he then resided; or
Third-Any male lineal descendant of such
| aforementioned person who may be twenty
one Cd years or over in the year 1905.
No person ret thus qualified by coming
under some one of the above descriptions
| shall be entitled to be registered as q quail
| fed voter nor be entitled to vote.
| SECTION ,. And be ii JUTther 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 adoption
| or rejection in pursuance of the direction
| contained in Article XIV of the ConStitu-
| ton, 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
Amendments" or Against the Constitu-
! tiOnal Amendment" as the voters shall elect;
and Immediately after said election due re
turns shall be made to the Governor OF the
vote on said proposed amendment as direct
ed by the said NIVth Article of the Consti-
| tuition.
This is to certify that this engrC ssed docu-
ment proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of the State Of Maryland, the origi-
nal of which was passed by the Senate by
yeas and nays, more than three-ffthS of all
members elected voting in the Affirmative
on March g. 1904.
SPENCER C. JONES,
" President Cfdhe Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,