Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-09-11
Special Notices.
PROCLAIM ALTON

year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eight an Act was passed proposing an
amendment to Section l of Article of the
Constitution OF the State, which said Act is
in the following words, to wit
CHIPTER 20.
AN ACT to amend Section one of Article
one, titl" Elective Franchise" of the
Constitution of this State, and to provide
for the submission of said Amendment to
the qualified voters of this State for adop-
ton or rejection.
S1ECTION /. Bea cuactcd By tie GenearaI is
- Sentbiy Of .Mdryiuhd Mfee,ffthS Of all the
mcnberS ct each IF tie t,co Ho"Ses comcmrri"g,
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section one of Article one, title, Elective
Franchise" of the Constitution of this State,
and if adopted by the legal and qualified
voters thereof, as herein provided, 1t shall
supersede and stand in the place and stead
of Section one of said Article one.
SEC. l. All elections shall he by ballot, and
every male citizen Of the United States of the
age of twenty one years or upwards, who has
been resident of the State for two years and
of the Legislative District of Baltimore City or
of the county in which he may offer to vote,
for one year next preceding the election, and
who, moreover, is duly registered aS quail
entitled to vote, in the ward or election dis
trict In which he resides at all elections here
after to be held in this state. and in case any
county city shall he SO divided as to form
portions of different electoral districts for the
election of Representatives in Congress, Scna
tors, Delegates, or other officers, then to emit
tie Il person to vote for such officer, he must
have been II resident of that part of the county
or city which shall form part of the electoral
district in which he offers t" vote, for one year
next preceding the election but person who
shall have acquired residence i'll such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such clcc
ton, shall bc entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until he shall
have acquired Il residence i'll the part of the
county or city to which he has removed.
Every male citizen of the United States hay
ing tn" above prescribed qualifications of age
and residence shall be entitled to be registered
SO as to become qualified voter if he be, first :
person who, on the first day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and siXty-nne, or prior
thereto, was entitled to vote under the laws of
this state, or of any other State of the nitcd
States, wherein he then resided or second Il
male descendant of such last mentioned per
son; or third: Il foreign born citizen of the
United States naturaliZcd between the first day
Ot January in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine and the date Of the adoption of this
section of this Article; or fourth: il male de
sccndant OF such last mentioned person or
fifth: a person who, in the presence of the OIL
GERS of registration, shall, in his own hand
writing, with pen and ink, without any aid
suggestion or memorandum whatsoever, and
without any question or direction addressed to
him by any OF the officers OF registration, make
Application to register correctly, stating in
such application his name, age, date and place
of birth, residence and occupation at the time
ana for the two years next preceding, the name
or names of his employer or employers, il any
AT the time and for I he two years next preceu
ing, and whether he has previously voted, and
il so, the State, county or city and district or
precinct in which he voted last, and also the
name in full of the President of the nitcd
States, of one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States, OF the Governor of
Maryland, Of one of the Judges of the Court of
Appeals of Marylan and of the Mayor of Bal
timorc City, if the applicant resides in I1ati
more City, or of one of the County Commis
Soncrs of the county i'll which the applicant
resides and any person who is unable to com
ply with the aforegOing requirements to
making application for registration in his own
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from so doing or sixth: IL person, or
the husband of a person who at the time of his
application for registration is IL bona tide own
err or real or personal property i'll an amount of
not less than five hundred dollars. is assessed
therefor on the tax books of the City of Bati-
more or of one of the counties of this State has
been such owner and so assessed for two years
next preceding hlSapplicatiOn for rcgiSt rat ion:
shall have paid and shall produce receipts for
the taxes on said property for said two years
and shall at the time of his application make
affidavit before the officers of registration that
he is, or that he is the husband of the person
who is the bona ide owner of the property so
assessed to him or to her, as the case may be-
and that he or she has been such owner for
two years next preceding his application.
No person not qualified under some one of
the above clauses shall be entitled to he regis
tered us Il qualified voter or be entitled to vote
Every written application to be registered
presented to the officers of registration by any
person applying to be registered under the
above fifth clause, shall be carefully preserved
by said officers of registration and shall be pro
duccd in any Court, if required, as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for registra-
tiOn. duly made to the officers of registration or
i'll Court, that he, the applicant, is person who
was entitled to vote on or before the first day
la hII IpIIn and
sixty y-nine, as aforesaid, or that he has become
Il naturaliHcd citizen of the tnitcd States be
tween the first day of January i'll the year
eighteen hundred and sixty nine and the date
OF the adoption of this section of this Article
as aforesaid, or his affidavit upon information
and belief that he is a descendant of Il person
who was entitled to vote on or before the first
day of January i'll the year eighteen hundred
and sixty nine, or that he is Il descendant of Il
person who has become il naturaliZcd citizen
of the United States between the first day of
January i'll the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine and the date of the adoption of this
section OF this Article, shall be prma facie
evidence of any of said facts SO sworn to.
y wifully false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to
any of the matters aforesaid shall be erjury
and punishable as perjury is punished by the
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggrievcd by the action
OF any board OF officers of registration in reflIS
ing to register him as Il qualified voter, or in
registering any disqualified person. may ut any
time, either before or after the last session of
the board of officers of registration, but not
later than the Tuesday ne eXt preceding the clec-
ton, file Il petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county in which the cause
of complaint arises, or, if the cause of com
plaint arises i'll Baltimore City, in any court of
common law jurisdiction in said city, setting
forth the grounds of his application and asking
to have the action of the board of officers of
registration corrected. The court shall forth
with set the petition for hearing and direct
summons to he issued requiring the board of
officers of registration complained against in
said petition to attend at the hearing i'll person
or 10y counsel, and where the Objectof the pcti-
ton is to strike of the name of any person sum
mons shall also be issued for such person, which
shall be served by the sheriff within the time
therein designated and said several courts
shall have full jurisdiction and power to review
the action of any board of officers of rcgistra-
tiOn and to grant withhold, aS il may deem
lawful and proper, the relief prayed for in the
premises.
In determining whether any person who ap-
piled to he registered under the above fifth
clause of this section was not entitled
to be registered under said fifth clause, the
court shall require the board of officers of reg
lStratiOn COmpl lined against to produce the
written application prepared and submitted by
such person at the time he presented himself
for registration to said board of officers of reg
iStTtiOn, and upon said written application
the court shall determine whether or not said
person, when he presented himself for rcgiStra-
tiOn, complied with the requirements of said
fifth clause and if the court shall determine
that said written application, so prepared and
submitted by said person, complied with the
requirements of said fifth clause, and that said
person was not disqualified under any other
provision OF this Article of the Constitution to
he registered upon the books of registry in
question, then the Court shall order said person
to he registered as 4 pualihed voter, but if the
court shall determine that said written appli-
cation of said person failed to comply with the
requirements of said fifth clause, or that said
person was in any other respect under this
Article of the Constitution disqualified to be
registered upon the books of registry in uueS-
tion, then the court shall order that said per