The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-08-28

eight, an Act was passed proposing an amend
ment to Section 1of Article of the Constitu-
ton of the State. which said Act is in the fol-
lowing words, to wit:
CHAPTER 26
AN ACT to amend Section one of Article one.
title. Effective Franchise of the Constitu-
ton of this State, and to provide for the submits
sion of said Amendment to the qualified voters
of this State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION !. Be it enacted BY the General As
sembly OF Maryland, three fifths of all the mem
bers of each Of the two Houses concurring, that
the following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to Section one Of
Constitution Of this State, and If adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof, herein pro-
vided, 1t shall supersede and stand in the place
and stead OF Section one of said Article one.
SEC.1 All elections shall be 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, more
over. is duly registered as a qualified voter as
provided in this Article shall be entitled to VOTE
in the ward or election district in which he re-
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
then to entitle person TO vote for such officer,
he must have been resident of that part of the
county OF. city which shall form part of the
electoral district in which he offers to vote, for
one year next preceding the election: but per-
son who shall have acquired residence in such
election. shall be entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until he shall
county or city to which he has removed Wed - '"o
Every male citizen of the United States having
the above prescribed qualifications of age and
residence shall be entitled to be registered so as
to become qualified voter If he be, first per-
son who, on the first day Of January in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty nine, or prior there
to, was entitled to vote under the laws of this
State or of any other State of the United States,
wherein he then resided; or second: male de-
foreign born citizen of the United States natur-
allied between the first day of January in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty nine and the
Gle; or fourth: male descendant of such last
mentioned person or fifth: person who, in the
presence of the officers Of registration, shall, in
his own handwriting, 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
and for the two years next preceding, the name
or names of his employer or employers, if any.
at the time and for the two years next proceed
ing, and whether he has previously voted. and
precinct in which he voted last. and also the
name in full of the President of the United
States, OF one OF the Justices OF the Supreme
of Maryland of one of the Judges of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland and of the
in baltimore City, or of one of the County Com
missioners of the county in which the applicant
resides; and any person who is unable to COM
ing application Representation in his own hand
writing solely because he is physically disabled
from 50 doing; or sixth person, Or the hus-
ton for registration, is bona tide owner Of real
or personal property in an amount of not less
than five hundred dollars, is assessed therefor
on the textbooks of the City of Baltimore or of
one of the counties of this State. has been such
owner and SO assessed for two years next pre-
ceding his application for registration: 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,
that he is the husband of the person who is the
bona tide 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 pre-
ceding his application.
No person not qualified under some one of the
above clauses shall be entitled to be registered
as qualified voter or be entitled to vote. Every
written application to be registered, presented
to the officers of registration by any person ap
plying to be registered under the above fifth
clause, shall be carefully preserved by said Off
GERS of registration and shall be produced in any
Court, IL required, as hereinafter provided
duly made to the officers of registration or in
Court, that he, the applicant, is person who
January, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine, as aforesaid, or that he has become
a naturalized citizen of the United States be-
tween the first day of January, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and sixty nine, and the date of the
adoption of this Article, as aforesaid, or his af-
des s Of person who was entitsd to vote
on or before the first day of January, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty mine, or that he is
allied citizen of the United States between the
first day of January. in the year eighteen hum
dEed ana as ana FSs the asse o. fhe aGGp
fdcie evidence of any of said facts so sworn to-
wilfully false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to any
of the matters aforesaid shall be perjury and
punishable as perjury is punished by the laws of
ANY person who feels aggrieved by the action
of any board of officers of registration in refus-
ing to register him as q qualified voter, or in
f eber before or aeP He s SESSION 81 y
the board of officers of registration, but not later
than the Tuesday next preceding the election,
Court for the county in which the cause of COM
plant arises, or, IL the cause OF complaint arises
in Baltimore City, In any court of common laws
grounds of his application and asking to have
the action of the board of officers of registration
corrected. The court shall forthwith set the
petition for hearing and direct summons to be
issued requiring the board of officers of registra-
ton complained against in said petition to at
tend at the hearing in person or by counsel, and
where the object of the petition is to strike of
the name of any person. summons shall also be
TOE suGn % %nic a sra 0e 5y
and said several courts shall have full jurisdic-
ton and power to review the action of any board
of officers of registration and to grant or with
hold, as IL may deem lawful and proper, the re-
lief prayed for in the premises.
In determining whether any person who ap
piled to be registered under the above fifth
clause of this section was or was not entitled to
be registered under said fifth clause, the court
shall require the board OF officers of registration
Oh 1od IN ho m
plication prepared and submitted by such per-
son at the time he presented himself for regis
tratiOn to said board of officers of registration,
and upon said ttenapplication the court shall
determine whether or not said person, when he
presented himself for registration, complied
if the court shall determine that said written ap
plication, so prepared and submitted by said per-
son, 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 be registered upon the books of
registry in question, then the Court shall order
said person to be registered as qualified voter,
but II the Court shall determine that said writ
ten application of said person failed to comply
that said person was in any other respect under
this Article of the Constitution disqualified to
be registered upon the books of registry in ques-
ton then the court shall order that said person
shall not be registered upon said books OF
registry.
ment for contempt in said cases neither party
shall have any right of removal; exception may
De taken TO any rullnR OF the court at the near
ing of said cases and an appeal shall be allowed
to the Court of Appeals as in other cases; all
such appeals shall be taken within five days
from the date of the decision complained of, and
shall be heard and decided by the Court of APP
peals upon the original papers, or otherwise, as
the Court of Appeals may by rule prescribe, as
soon as may be practicable.
The General Assembly shall have power to
provide more fully BY legislation not inconsis-
tent with this section of this Article, for the
hearing and determination of all such cases.
Sea- And be 1t further enacted by the au-
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitution of this State shall be at the next Gem
eral Election for members of the General As
semby to be held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their adop-
ton or rejection. in pursuance of the directions
contained in Article XIV of the Constitution of
this State, and at said general election the vote
on the said proposed amendment shall be by
ballot and upon each ballot there shall be prin-
ted the words "For the Constitutional Amend
ment" and Against the Constitutional Amend
ment" as now prescribed by law, and immedi-
ately after said election due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment as directed by the
said Article XIV of the Constitution.
Approved February Is, 1908.
Now, therefore, /. Austin L. Crothers, Cover
nor of the State of Maryland, in pursuance of
the provisions of Section ]. of Article IA of the
Constitution of the State Of Maryland, do here
by order and direct that q copy of said Act pro-
posing an amendment to Section Of Article of
the Constitution of said State, be published in
at least two newspapers in each of the counties