The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-10-06
Proclamation.

WHEREAS, at the January Session of tn
General Assembly OF Maryland held in tn
year of our Lord one thousand nine huudrcr
| and four, two bills were passed, one Pre-
posing an amendment to Section of Articl
| of the Constitution of the State. the othc
| proposing an amendment to Section 81 o
Article , of the Constitution of the state
which said bills are in the words following
to wit:
CHAPTER 90.
| AN ACT to amend Section l 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 OF
! rejection.
| SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Genera
| Assembly of Maryland tthrcc-iifths of all tht
members of each of the two Houses coItCur
| ing,D That the following section be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment to
| Section of Article of the Constitution u
| tins state and il adopted by the legal and
| qualified voters thereof. as herein provided. it
| shall supcrsede and stand in the place and
stead OF Section i of said Article /.
SECTION /. All elections by the people
| shall be by ballot Every male citizen OF the
United States, whether native born or nat uT.
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 ia the county in which lac may offer to
vote for six months next preceding the clcc-
ton. and who moreover is duly registered -
Il qualified voter, as provided in this article.
shall be entitled to vote i'll the ward or ClcC
ton district in which he resides at all d~c.
tiOnS hereinafter to he held i'll this State; aud
in case any county or city shall bc SO divided
to form portions OF different electoral dis
trictS for the election of Representatives, in
Congress, Senators. Delegates Other
officers. then, to cuti;lc a person to vote for
such officer, lac must have been a resident ui
that part o; the county or city which shall
form u part of the electoral district III which
he offers 10 vote for six months next prccrd-
ing the election, but u person who shall have
acquired a residence in such county or city
emitting him 10 vote at any such election.
shall he entitled to vote in the election dis
triCt from which he removed until he shall
have acquired a residence in the part of the
county city to which he has removed.
Every such maic citizen of the United States
having the above prescribed qualifications of
age and residence shall be entitled to lie regis
tered SO as to become = qualified 70 tcr il lie lie.
FirSt-A person able TO read any section of
the Constitution of the State submitted to
hira by the officers of registration and to give
reasonable explanation OF the same; or II
unable to read such section is able to under
stand and give explanation thereof when
read TO him by the registration officers; or
Secoud-A person who on the first dav of
January, 500. 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-Auy male incal descendant of such
aforementioned person who may be twenty
one CD years OF age or over in the year ! 9O6.
No DSISOH llpl lIuS NiusAiliS'l W 'OIIlliiS
under some of the above descriptions
shall be entitled to be registered as a quail
fed voter. nor be entitled to vote.
SECTION =. 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"
"A glinSt the Constitutional \ Amendment 80
thc voter shall elect: and immediately after
said election due returns shall he made to the
Governor of the vote on said proposed amend
ment as directed by the said MYTH Article of
the Constitution.
This is to certify that this cngrosscd docu-
uent 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 thrce-tiiths OF all
members elected voting in thv Affirmative on
March 3. 9u+.
SPENCER (. JONDS.
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