Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-10-09
Special Notices.
PROCLAIM ALTON

and eight an Act was passed proposing an
| amendment to Section | of Article of the
| Constitution OF the State, which said Act is
! in the following words to wit
CIIIPTER 20.
AN ACT to amend Section one of Article
one, title, 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.
CECTION |. BE il emactedby tie Geneard Is
- Sentbiy ct -HaryiH.d, Mree,ttthS ot all the
members Ct each Cf the t'c0 HOASeS cOncurrjng,
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section one OF Article one title q 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 be by ballot, and
every male citizen of the United States of the
age of twenty years or upwards, who has
been IL 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 Il quail
fled voter as provided in this Article, shall be
entitled to vote, in the ward or election dis
trict Ill which he resides, at all elections here
after to bc 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, Sena-
tors, Delegates, or other officers, then to cnti-
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 il part of the electoral
district i'll which he offers to vote for one year
next preceding the election; but Il person who
shall have acquired ii residence i'll such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such clec-
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 the 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-ninc, 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 ; or second: Il
male descendant of such last mentioned per
son; or third: Il foreign born citizen of the
United States naturaizcd between the first day
of January in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article fourth: Il male de
Secndant OF such last mentioned person or
fifth: a person whO in the presence of the OIL
GERS OF rcgiStratiOn shall, i'll 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
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 preceu
lnE, and whether he has previously voted, and
II so, the state, county or city and district or
precinct in which he voted last, and also the
name i'll full OF the President of the United
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 Maryland, and of the Mayor of Bal
tlmOrc City, If the applicant resides in l}alti-
more City, or of one of the County COmmiS-
SiOncrS OF the county i'll which the applicant
resides; ; and any person who is unable to com
ply with the aioregolng requirements as to
making Application for registration i'll his own
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from SO doing or sixth Il person, or
the husband OF Il person, who at the time OF his
application Tor registration, is il bona -tidc own
cr OF 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 Balti-
more or of one of the counties of this State, has
been such owner and So assessed for two years
next preceding his application for rcgStrati 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 tide owner OF the property so
asses ed to him or to her, as the case may be,
and hat he or she has been such owner for
tw Jears next preceding his application.
40 person not qualified under some one of
the above clauses shall be entitled to he regis
tered aS qualified voter or be EMIT led to vote.
Every written application to he 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 i'll any Court, if required, as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for rcgstra-
ton tuly made to the officers of registration or
in e. lrt, that hc the applicant, is Il person who
was nltcd to vote on or before the first day
Of nary in tho year eighteen hundred and
SiXty -ninc as aforesaid, that he has become
naturalized citizen of the United States be
tween the first day of January in 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 Il descendant of person
who was entitled to vote on or before the first
day of January in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty nine, or that he is IA descendant of II
person who has become ii naturaliZed citizen
OF the United States between the first day of
January i'll the year eighteen hundred and
sixty y-ninc and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article, shall be prima facic
evidence of any of said facts so sworn to.
y wiltully false statement upon the part of
amy applicant for registration in relation to
any OF the matters aforesaid shall be perjury,
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 retus-
ing to register him as Il qualified voter, or in
registering any disqualified person, may at any
time, either before or after the last session of
the board of officers of registration, but not
later than the Tuesday next preceding the clcc-
ton, tlle petition, verified by affidavit, i'll the
Circuit Court for the county in which the cause
of complaint arises, or if the cause of com
paint arises in Baltimore City, in any court of
common law jurisdiction i'll 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 be issued requiring the board of
officers of registration complained against in
said petition to attend at the hearing i'll person
M n hta ntAft
tiOn is to strike OF the name OF any person sum
mons shall also be issued Tor 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 or withhold aS it may deem
lawful and proper, the relief prayed for i'll 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 he registered under said fifth clause, the
court shall require the board of officers of reg
istratOn 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
iStratiOn, and upon said written application
the court shall determine whether or not said
person, when he presented himself for rcgistra
ton, 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 bC registered aS qualified 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 he
| registered upon the hooks of registry in uuCs-