Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-09-24

/ in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred aud eight, an Act was
passed proposing an amendment to Sec
tion 1 Of Article Of the Constitution Of
the State, which said Act is in the fol
lowing words, to-wit
CHAPTER &c.
AN ACT to amend Section one Of Ar
ticle one, title, Elective Franchise o.
the Constitution of this State, and tc
provide for the submission of said
Amendment to the qualified voters Of
this State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION 1. BE it ena sted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of Maryland, three-fifths
Of all the members of each Of the two
Houses concurring, that the following
section be and the same is hereby pro-
posed as an amendment to Section one
Of Article one, title, Elective Fran
chise, Of the Constitution Of this State,
and if adopted by the legal and qualified
voters thereof, as herein provided, il
shall supersede and stand in the place
and stead of Section one Of said Article
one.
SEC. 1. All elections shall be by bal
lot, and every male citizen of the United
States Of the age Of tweuty-one years OF
upwards, who has been a resident Of the
state for two years and Of the Legisla
tive District Of Baltimore City or of the
county in which he may offer to vote
for enc year next preceding the election
and who, moreover, is duly registered as
qualified voter as provided in this Ar
ticle, 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 election of Representatives in
Congress, Senators, Delegates or other
officers, then to entitle person to vote
for such officer, h9 must have been a
resident of chat part of this county oil
city which shall form part of the cleo
toral district in which he offers to vot 2,
4 for one year next preceding the election
but person who shall have acquired q
residence in such county or city, en-
| titling HIM to vote at any such election
shall be entitled to vote in the election
/ dis riot from which he removed, until he
shall have acquired residence in the
part Of the county or city to which be
has removed.
Every male citizen Of the United States
/ having the above prescribed qualifica.
tions Of age aid residence shall be en-.
/ titled to be registered so as to become q
qualified voter il he be, first a person
who, on the first day Of January in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, oil
prior thereto, was entitled to vote under
the laws of this State, or of any Other
State Of the United States, wherein he
/ then resided OF second male de
scendant of such last mentioned person
or third foreign born citizen of the
/ United States naturalized between the
first day Of January in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine and the date oil
the adoption of this section of this Arti
Gle; OF fourth a male descendant OF
such last mentioned person or fifth
a person who, in the presence of the of
ilcers Of registration, shall, in his own
handwriting, with pen and ink, without
any aid, suggestion or memorandum
whatsoever, and without any question oil
direction addressed to him by any If the
officers Of registration, make application
to register correctly, stating in such ap
p'ication his name, age, date and place
!
time and for the two years next preeed
ing, the name or names of his employer
or employers, if any, at the time and fol
the tao years next preceding, and
whether he has previously voted, and il
50, the State, county or city and district
or precinct in which he voted last, anC
also the name in full Of the President o
the United States, Ct one of the Justices
Of the Supreme Court of the United
States, of the Governor Of Maryland, o
one of the Judges of the Court of APP
peals of Maryland and of the Mayor o.
Baltimore City, if the applicant resides
in Baltimore City, or of one of the
County Commissioners of the county
in which the applicant resides and any
person who is unable to comply with the
aforegoing requirements as to making
application for registration in his owr
handwriting, solely because he is physi
cally disabled from so doing or sixth
person, or the husband of a person.
who at the time of his application fol
registration, is bona fide owner of rea
or personal property in an amount Of
not less than five hundred dollars, is as
sesSed therefor on the textbooks of tht
| City of Baltimore or of one Of the coun
ties of this State, has been such ownel
and so asses ed for two years next pre-
eeding his application for registration
shall have paid and shall produce re
ceipts for the taxes on said property fol
said two years and shall at the time Of
his application make affidavit before the
officers of registration that he is, or thai
he is the husband of the person who j:
1 the bona fide owner of the Dronarty 81
assessed to him or to her, as the cast
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 entitl.
ed to be registered as qualified voter
or be entitled to vote. Every writer
application to be registered, presented t
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 produced in any Court, 1
required, as hereinafter provided
The affidavit of any applicant FOL
registration, duly made to the officer.
of registration or in Court, that he, tn,
applicant, is person who was entitled
to vote on or before the first day of Jan
uary in the year eighteen hundred anC
siXty-nine, as aforesaid, or that he ha
become a naturalized citizen of the
United States between the first day o
January in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine and the date of the adop
ton of this section Of this Article, a
aforesaid, or his affidavit upon informa
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