The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-08-12
miscellaneous.
. r o C L A M ALTON.

WHEREAS, at the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and four, two bills were passed, one proposing
an amendment to Section of Article of the
Constitution of the State, the other proposing
an amendment to Section 81 of Article of the
Constitution of the State, which said bills are in
the words following, to wit:
CHAPTER &c.
AN ACT to amend Section of Article of the
Constitution of this State and to provide for
the submission of said amendment TO the Quail
flied voters of this State for adoption or re-
lection.
SECTIoN /. Be 10 enacted BIZ the General Assen6ly
OF MARYLAND, three ffths of all the members of
each of the two Houses concurring). That the
following section be and the same is hereby pro-
posed az an amendment to Section of Article
Of the Constitution of this State, and if adopted
by the legal and qualified voters thereof as
herein provided, it shall supersede and stand in
place and stead Of Section of said Article l.
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 81 years 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
duly registered as qualified voter, as provided
| in this Article shall be entitled to vote in the
ward or election district in which he resides at
all elections hereafter to be held in this State;
ana In case any county or city shall be so d.
| v1ded as to form portions of different electoral
QlSLrlcLS TOT the elecL1On OF representatives IN
| Congress, Senators, Delegates or other officers
then, to entitle person to vote for such officer,
he must have been resident of that part of the
| county or city which shall form q part of the
electoral district in which he offers to vote for
six months next preceding the election, but
person who shall have acquired 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 until
he shall have acquired residence in the
| part of the county or city to which he has re-
moved. Every such male citizen of the United
lions of age and residence shall be entitled to be
| 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 reason
read such section is able to understand and give
| a reasonable explanation thereof when read to
him by the registration officers or
Second-A person who on the first day of Jan
uary, 1859, or prior thereto was entitled to vote
under the laws Of this State 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
S1S years OF age or qr over IN the year l9CS
| some one of the above descriptions shall be en-
titled to be registered as a qualified voter. nor
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the
| foregoing section hereby proposed as amend
ment 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 sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof
| IOr In6lr duOpClOu OF reJeCClOn IN pursuance or
the direction contained in Article XIV of the
J Constitution. and at said election the vote on
said proposed amendment shall be by ballot, and
upon each ballot there shall be written or print
ed the words For the Constitutional Amend
ment,n'' or Against the Constitutional Amend
ment," as the voters shall elect; and immediate
ly after said election due returns shall be made
to the Governor of the vote on said proposed
amendment as directed by the said XIVth Arti-
Gle of the Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrossed document
proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of
the State of Maryland, the original of which was
passed by the Senate by yeas and nays, more
than three-f ifths of all members elected voting
in the affirmative, on March 8, 1904.
SPENCER G. JONES,
President Of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary Of the Senate.