The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-10-05

AN ACT to amend Section l of Article l of
the Constitution of this State ana to pro
vide for the submission of said amendment
to the qualified voters of this State for
adoption OF rejection
SECTIONl l. BE il enacted by the General As
Sem6ty Of lfd1Yi0Hd (three-tifths 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 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 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 or nat
urallZed, OF the age of q 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 NAV offer
to vote for six months next preceding the
election, and who moreover is duly register
ed as qualified voter, as provided in this
Article, shall be entitled to vote in the ward
or election district i'll which he resides at all
elections hereafter to be held in this State;
ana 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, Senators. 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
which shall form a part of the electoral dis
trict in which he offers to vote for six months
next preceding the election, but a 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 fromwhich 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 a reaS enable explanation of the same;
or if 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, 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 (2D 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 a quail
fed voter nor be entitled to vote.
SECTION >. And be ii httber 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
Amendment 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 XIVth 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-fifthS of all
members elected voting in the Affirmative,
on March 3, 1904.
SPENCER C. JONES,
President ftte Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary Of the Senate.
This is to certify that this engrOssed docu-
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the State of Maryland, the origi-
nal of which was passed by the House Of
Delegates by yeas and nays, more than
three-fifths of all the members elected vot-
ing in the affirmative, on March 10, 1904.
GEORGE Y. EVERHART,
Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.
BENJAMIN l.. SMITH,
Chief Clerk.