The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-08-18
Proclamation.

WHEREAS, at the January session of tn
| General Assembly OF Maryland, held in tn
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundrc
and four. two bills were passed, one pro
posing an amendment to Section of Articl
l of the Constitution of the State, the othc
proposing an amendment to Section 81 o
Article 3 of the Constitution of the State
which said bills are in the words following
| to wit:
| CHAPTER SO.
AN ACT to amend Section / of Article l o
the Constitution of this State and to provide
| for the submission of said amendment to the
| qualified voters of this State for adoption OIL
rejection.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland Cthree tifths of all the
members of each of the two Houses concur.
ing,J That the following section be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section of Article of the Constitution OF
tins state and II adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof. as herein provided, it
shall supersede and stand in the place and
stead of Section of said Article !.
SECTION 1. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot. Every male citizen of the
United States, whether native, born or natur-
allied. OF the age of u years or upwards.
who has resided in the 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 cleo
ton, and who moreover is duly registered rs
qualified voter, provided in this article,
shall be entitled to vote in the ward or cleo.
ton district in which he resides at all cleo
tons hereinafter to be held in this State; and
in case any county or city shall be so divided
as to form portions OF different ELECTORAL dis
tricts for the election of Representatives. in
Congress, Senators, Delegates or other
officers, then, TO cntitle 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
lie offers to vote for six months next preced-
ing the election. but a person who shall have
acquired a residence in such county or city,
emitting him to vote at any such election,
shall he entitled to vote in the election dis
trict from which he removed until he shall
have acquired residence in the part of the
county or city to which lie has removed
Every such male citizen of the United States
having the above prescribed qualifications of
age and residence shall be entitled TO be regis
tered so as to become a qualified voter if he be.
First-A person able to read any section of
the Constitution of the State submitted to
him by the officers of registration and to give
Il reasonable explanation of the same; or If
unable to read such section is able to under
stand and give explanation thereof when
read to him by the registration officers; or
Second-A person who on the first day of
January, 1869, or prior thereof was entitled
to vote under the laws of this State or 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 CID years of age or over in the year COG.
NO person not thus quallheu DS 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 2. And be it further enacted.
That the foregoiog section hereby proposed
as amendment to the Constitution of this
State shall be ut 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 con-
tanned in Article XIV of the Constitution,
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 Constitutional amendment"
the voter shall elect; and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made to the
Governor OF the vote on said proposed amend
ment as directed by the said NIVth Article of
the Constitution.
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 Senate by
yeas and nays. more than threc-ffths of all
members elected voting in the affirmative on
March 3, 1904.
SPENCER {. JONDS.
President of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary of the Senate.