The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-09-09
CHAPTER g6,

ShAI LEN 10.
| 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 l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-tifths of all
the members of each OF the two Houses con
curing. 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, 1t shall Supersede and stand in
place aud stead OF Section 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 Legs district of Balti-
more city or in the county In which he may
offer to vote for SIX months next preceding
the election and who moreover is duly reg
istered 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
tion OF Representatives in Congress, Sen
atOrs, Delegates or other officers, then, to
entitic Il person TO 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 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 residenc &c 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
nf tnt Ia SIrh cd
to him bE 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 first day of
January, 1868, or prior thereto, was
titled to vote ulder the laws of this State
or OF any other State of the United States
wherein he then resided; or
Third-Any male Iineal descendant of
such aforementioned person who may be
twentN.one I'D years of age or over in the
year 1906.
under some one of the above descriptions
shall he entitled to be registered as a quail.
fled voter, nor be entitled 10 vote.
Section 2. And be it further enacted
That the foregoing section hereby proposed
rs 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-
lion or rejection in pursuance of the diIec-
tion cOntaiLcd in Article NV 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 ConStitu-
ttOnal Amendment" as the voters shall
elect and Immediately after said election
due returns shall be made to the Governor
OF the vote Gu said proposed amendment as
directed by the said NlNth Article of the
Constitution.