Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-08-17
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS at the January Session Of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and four, two bills were passed, one propos-
ing an amendment to Section of Article OF
the Constitution of the State the other pro
posing an amendment to Section "a of Article
3of the Constitution of the State, which said
bills are in the words following, to wit:
CHAPTER 96.
AN ACT to amend Section OF Article of
the Constitution of this State and to provide
for the submission of said amendment to
the qualified voters of this State for adop-
tion or rejection.
SECTION |. Be IL enacted by the General A.
sen6lv Of Maryland (hree-fifths of all the
members of each of the two Houses concur
ring), that the following section be and the
II
this State, and If adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided,
II shall supersede ana stang IN place ana
SECTION l.. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot. Every male citizen of
the United States, whether native born or
wards, who has resided in this State for one
year and in the Legislative district OF Balti'
more city or in the county in which ne may
offer to vote for six months next preceding
the election, and who moreover Is duly reg.
istered as q qualified voter, as provided in
this Article. shall be entitled to vote In the
ward or election district in which he resides
at all elections 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 districts for the election OF Repre-
sentatives in Congress, Senators, Delegates
or other officers, then, to entitle q person to
vote for such officer, he must have been
resident of that part OF We e, eonnty ra or c1iy dy
trict in whicn he offers to vote for six months
next preceding the election. but a person
who shall have acquired residence IN sucn
such election, shall be entitled to vote in the
election district from which he removed until
he shall have acquired residence IN tho
part of the county or city to which he mas
removed. Every such male citizen OF the
United states having the above-prescribed
qualifications of age and residence snail De
entitled to be registered so as 10 become
qualified voter III be
First-A person able to read any section OF
the Constitution of this State submitted TO
him by the officers ofregistration and to give
q reasonable explanation of the same; or If
unable to read such section H. able TO under
stand and give reasonable explanation
thereof when read to him by the registration
officers; or
Second-A person who on the first day of
January, 1860, or prior thereto, was entitleo
to vote under the laws of this State or OF any
other State of the United States wherein he
Thrd-Any male lineal descendant of
such aforementioned person who may pe
tWehty-oho N%iJ SS"i' va co "' 49, ' 49,
year 1906
No person not thus qualified by coming
under some one of the above descriptions
shall be entitled to be registered AS quail
fed voter, nor be entitled TO vote.
SECTION 2. And BE- 10 further enacted,
That the foregoing section hereby proposed
as amendment to the Constitution OF TINS
State shall be at the next general electioh
for members of the General Assembly 10 ne
held in this state submitted to the legal ana
qualified voters thereof for their adoptlon or
rejection in pursuance of the direction con-
tanned in Article XIV of the Constitution,
and at said election the vote on said propo-
scd amendment shall be bv ballot, and upon
each ballot there shall be written or printed
the words "Eor the Constitutional Amend.
ment" or against the constitutional
Amendment" as the voters shall elect; ana
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
stitution of the state of Maryland, the origi-
nal of which was passed by the Senate by
yeas and NAYS, more than ihree-flfths ofall
members elected voting in the affirmative,
SPENCER C. JONES,
President Of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
-, Secretary of the Senate.
This Is to certify that this engrossed docu'
ment prOpOsing an Amendment to the Con
stitutfon of the State of Maryland, the origi-
nal of which was passed by the House OF
Delegates by yeas and nays, more than