Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-07
Special Notices.
PROCLAIM ALTON

General Assembly of Maryland, held in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eight, an Act was passed proposing an
amendment to Section l of Article l of the
Constitution OF the State, which said Act is
in the following words, to wit;
CITIPTER 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.
election l. BeHu,actcdbythe Ge,eorm is
- Scntbiy Of Hdyiapd, Hrcc.ftthS ct all the
members Of cach IF tie tire Hon$cs cOmcHIyj"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 |. All elections shall bc by ballot, and
every male citizen of the United States OF the
age of twenty one 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 ii quail
fled voter us provided in this Article, shall be
entitled to vote, in the ward or election dis
trict i'll which he resides, at all elections here
after to bC held in this state. and in case any
county or city shall he SO divided rs to form
portions of different electoral districts for the
election of Representatives in Congress. Soma
tors, Delegates or other officers, then to emit
tie IL person to vote for such officer, he must
have been Il resident of that part of the county
or city which shall form a part of the electoral
district in which he offers to vote, for one year
next preceding the election; but il person who
shall have acquired Il residence i'll such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such elcc-
ton, shall bc entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until ne shall
have acquired Il residence i'll the part of the
county or city to which he has removed.
Every male citizen of the [ nitcd States hay
Ing the above prescribed qualifications of age
and residence shall he entitled to b" registered
SO as to become qualified voter if he he, first ::
a person who ON the first day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty nine, 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
nitcd States naturalizcd between tine 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; or fourth: Il male de
Sccndant of such last mentioned person or
fifth: Il person who, in tn" presence of the oil
GERS of rrgiSt ration, 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 10y any of the officers of registration. max
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 CNt preceding, the name
or names OF his employer or employers. II any,
ut the time and for the two years next pr, c.d
ing and whether he has prey iouSly voted, and
if so, the State, county OF city and district or
precinct i'll which he voted last. ana also the
name in full of the President of the nitcd
States, of one of the Justices + the pr"me
It mo nit q I,,,,-,
Maryland, of one of the Judges OF the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, and of the Mayor of Bal
timorc city, ii the applicant resides i'll Iialti
more City, or of one of the County Commits
SiOnCrS of the county i'll which the applicant
resides and any person who is unable To com
ply with the afOrcgUing requirements to
making application for registration in his own
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from SO doing or sixth II person, or
the husband of Il person, who 1T the time OF his
Application Tor registration, Is bona ildr own
cr of real or personal property in auamOunt of
not less than five hundred dollars, is assessed
therefor on the tax books of the City of Iialti-
more or of one of the counties of this State, has
been such owner and ST. assessed for two years
next preceding his application fOrrCg stIatiOn:
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 pcrS.n
who is the bona tidc owner of the property so
assessed to him or to her, as the case may he,
and that he or she has been such owner for
al
No person not qualified under some one of
the above clauses shall be entitled to he regis
tered is 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 he registered under the
above fifth clause, shall be carefully preserved
by said officers of rcgSt ration and shall be pro
dlccd i'll any Court, il required, as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for rcgistra
ton. duly made to the officers of regSt ratiOn or
i'll Court, that he, the applicant is person who
was entitled to vote ON or before the first day
of January in tho year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine. as aforesaid or that he has become
il natulTillHcd citizen of the l nitcd States be
tween the first day of January in the year
eighteen hundred and SiXty-nnc and the date
OF the adoption of this section of this Article,
as aforesaid, or his affidavit upon Information
and belief that he is descendant of IA 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 Il
person VINO has become il naturaIiZcd citizen
OF the nltcd states between the first daN of
January i'll the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article, shall he prima facc
evidence of any of said facts SO sworn to.
y wiliully false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to
any OF the matters aforesaid shall be perjury
ana punishable as perjury is punished by the
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggrievcd by the action
OF amy board of officers of registration in refuS
my To register MN as Il qllaflcd voter, or in
registering any disqualified person. may at any
time, either before or after the last session OF
the board of officers of registrations but not
later than the Tuesday next preceding the cleo
tion 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
plant 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