The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-09-15
PROCLAMATION!

WHEREAS, at the January session ofth,
General Assembly of Maryland, held In tn,
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundre,
and four, two bills were passed, one propos
ing an amendment to Section of Article
of the Constitution of the State, the othel
| proposing an amendment to Section "a o
Ar icle of the Constitution OF the state
which said bills are in The words following
/ 10 wit:
CHAPTER 96
| AN ACT to amend Section l OF Article I oil
the Constitution of this State and to pro
| vide for the submission of said amendment
TO the qualified voters of this state for
adoption or rejection,
SECTION ]. Be IL enacted by the General
assembly Of Maryland (three-hfths of all the
members of each OF the two Houses concur
rlngl. That the following section be and the
same Is hereby proposed SIS an amendment
TO Section OF Article of the Constitution
OF this state, and If adopted by the legal and
quallned voters Thereof, as herein provided
IL shall be supersede and stand in place and
stead of Section % said Article l.
SECTION l. All elections by the people
snail be by ballot. Every male citizen ct
the United States, whether native born or
naturanzed, of the age of p years or up
wards, who has resided in this State for one
year and in the Legislative district OF BATH
more city or in the county in which he mag
ofier TO vote for six months next preceding
the election, and who moreover is duly reg
lstered as qualified voter, as provided in
TINS 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
ton OF Representatives i'm Congress- Sen
ators, Delegates or other officers, then to
ehtltle person to vote for such officer, he
must nave been resident OF that part of
the county or city which shall form q part
OF the electoral district in which he offers
10 vote Tor six months next preceding the
election, but a person who shall have ac-
CURED residence in such county or city
emitting him to vote ut any such election
snall be entitled to vote In the election dis
trict from which he removed until he shall
have acquired Il residence in the part oil the
county or city to which he has removed
EVERY such male citizen ofthe United States
having the above-preScribed qualifications
of age and residence shall be entitled to be
registered SO as TO become qualified voter
il tie be
tirst--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;
OF 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, 1869, or prior thereto, was entitled
TO vote under the laws of this State or OF
any other state of the Udited States wherein
ne lutll feSlu6u, OF
Third-Any male lineal descendant of
such aforementioned person who may be
tWehty-one (2l) 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 a duaIi-
fed voter, nor be entitled to vote.
SECTION 2. Ind be il further enacted,
Ihat the foregoing section hereby proposed
as amendment to the Constitution OF this
state snail be at the next general election
Tor members of the General Assembly to be
held in this state submitted to the legal
ana qualified voters thereof for their adop-
tlon or rejection in pursuance of the direc-
ton contained in Arcicle XIV 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-
elect; and Immediately after said election
due returns shall be made to the Governor
OF the vote on said proposed amendment as
directed by the said XIVth Article OF the
Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrossed docu-
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con-
stltution of the State of Maryland, the orig
maj OF which was passed by the Senate by
yeas and nays, more than three-fifths of all
on March 8, 1904.
SPENCER @. JONES.
President Of The Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary of the Senate