The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-11-04
Proclamation

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 Sec
ton "a of Article of the Constitution of the
State, which said bills are in the words fol-
lowing, to-wit:
CHAPTER 0e.
AN ACT to amend Section of Article 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 |. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-tifthS OF all
the members of each of the two Houses con
curring). That the following section be and
the same Is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Section of Article of the tonsti-
tuition of this state, and If adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof. as herein
provided, IL shall SnpeTSede and stand in
place and stead OF Sec ion OF said Article |.
Section L. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot. Every male citizen of
the United States, whether native born or
naturaIized, of the age of q years or up.
wards, who has resided in this state for one
year and in the Legislative district of Bati-
more city or in the county In which he may
the election, and who moreover Is duly reg
istered as n qualified voter, rs provided in
this Article, Shall be entitled to vote in the
ward or election district In which he re-
sides at all elections hereafter 10 be held
in this state; aud in case airy county or
city shall be so divided as to form portions
of different electoral districts for the cleo
ttOn of Representatives i'll Congress, Sen
ators, Delegates or other officers, then, to
entitlc "A person to VoIe for such officer, he
must have been a resident of That part of
the county or city which shall form part
OF the electoral district in which lie offers
to vote for SIX months next preceding the
election, but a 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
trlct from which he removed until he shall
have acquired a residence In the part of the
county or city to when he has removed.
Every such male citizen of the United states
having the ahove-prescribed qualifications
OF age and residence shall be entitled to be
registered so as to become qualified voter
If he be
tlrSt-A person able to read any section
OF the Constitution of this state submitted
to him by 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 a reasonable eXplana.
lion thereof when read to him by the regis
tration officers or
Second-A person who on the first day of
January, 1860, or prior thereto, was en-
titled to vote III der the laws of this State
or of any other State of the United States
WHtltlH he NutIl ItSluei , Ut
Third-Any male iineal descendant of
such aforementioned person who may be
twenty.one CD 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.
fled voter, nor be entitled to vote.
Section 2. And be 1t further enacted
That the foregoing section hereby proposed
as amendment to the Constitution OF this
State shall be at the next general election
for mem bers of the General Assembly to be
held in this state submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adop.
ZION or rejection IN pursuance OF the di'ec-
ton contatI ed in Article XIV OF the Consti-
tuition, and at said election the vote on said
proposed amendment shall be by ballot al nd
upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words " For the Constitutional
Amendment or Against the Cnnstitu-
tional Amendment as the voters shall
elect and Immediately after said elec ion
due returns shall he made to the Governor
OF the vole on said proposed amendmt mt as
directed by the said NlNth Article of the
Constitution.