Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-28
CHAPTER M.


AN ACT to amend Section / OF Article of
the Constitution of this State and to provide
for the submission of said amendment 10
the qualified voters of this State for adop-
ton or rejection.
SECTION !. Be IL enacted By ne General Is
SeBtbfy QT Maryland (three-ffths 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 IL 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 Che
United States. whether native born or nat
uralized, of the age of II years or upwards,
in the Legislative district of Baltimore city
or in the county in which he may offer to vote
for six months next preceding the election.
and who moreover is duly registered as a
qualified voter, as provided in this Article.
shall be entitled to vote in the ward or cleo
ton district in which he resides at all cleo
lions hereinafter 10. 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 entitle a person to vote for such
officer, he must have been resident OF that
part of the county or city which shall form a
part of the electoral district in which he of
fers 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 dis
trict from which he removed until he shall
have acquired 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 reg
istered so as TO become a qualified voter il 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 reasonable explanation of the same; or tx
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. lsC9. or prior thereto; was entitled
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 1906.
No person not thus qualified by coming I'M
der some one of the above descriptions shall
be entitled to be registered as a qualified
voter. nor be entitled TO vote.
SECTION 2 And be IL 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 10 the legal and qualified
voters thereof for their adoption or rejection
in pursuance of the direction contained in
Article XIV OF the Constitution. and at said
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment shall he by ballot. and upon each ballot
there shalt be written or printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment or
"A gainst the Constitutional Amendment as
the voters 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 XINth Article
of the Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrossed docu-
ment proposing an Amendment TO the Constl-
tuition OF the State of Maryland. the original
of which was passed by the Senate by yeas
and nays, more than three-iifths Of all mem
beers elected voting In the Affirmative. on
March 3. 1904.
SPENCER C.. JONES.
President Of ne Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary II TIE Sessdte.
This Is to certify that this engrossed docu-
ment proposing an amendment 10 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
ffths of all the members elected voting in
the affirmative. on March 10. 1904.
GEORGE Y. EVERHART.
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