Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
Special Notices.
PROCLAIM ALTON

year OF our LORD one Thousand nine nunureI
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:
CH.irTER 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
StECTION /. BE il cndctcdby tie GeHcdrW is
- Se,nbiy Of .Nuryio~d, Mrcc,ftth& ot all the
mcinb,yS 9t each Of tie tro Ho"$eS con""lyjng,
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 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 as provided in this Article, shall he
pntltltu 10 vote, III tnc Wilu or election ulS-
trict III which he resides, at all elections here
after to he held i'll this state. and in case any
county city shall be 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 cnti
tie person to vote for such officer, he must
have been resident of that part of the county
or city which shall form IL part of the electoral
district in which he offers to vote, for one year
next preceding the election; but person who
shall have acquired IL residence in such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such clcC-
tion, shall be entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed until he shall
have acquired residence i'll the part OF the
county or city to which he has removed.
Every male citizen of the United States hav
ing the above prescribed qualifications of age
and residence shall bc entitled to be registered
so as to become il qualified voter if he be- first
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
United States naturaliHcd between the first day
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
fifth person who, in the presence of the O-
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
app icHtiOn 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, il any,
AT the time and for the two years next proceed
ing, and whether he has previously voted, and
if 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 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
timDIJt litN. if the ambient resides in lSiIti-
more City, or of one of the County COmmiS-
SioncrS of the county in which the applicant
resides; and any person who is unable to com
ply, with the at"rcgoin@ requirements as to
making application for registration in his
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from so dong or sixth Il person, or
the husband of person, who at the time of his
application for rcgiStrat ion, is bona tidc own
cr OF real or personal property in an amount of
not less than five hundred dollars, is assessed
therefor on the taN-hOOks of the City of Balt-
more or of one of the counties of this State, has
been such owner and so assessed for two years
next preceding his hiSapplicatiun for rcgist ration:
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 hat
he is, or that he is the husband of the person
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
two years next preceding his application.
No person not qualified under some one of
the above clauses shall be entitled to hc regis
tered aS Il qualified voter or he entitled 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 bc carefully preserved
by said officers of registration and shall be pro
ducCd i'll any Court. if required. ;iS hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for rcgstr
tlon, duly made to the officers of registration or
III Court, that he, the applicant, is Il person who
was entitled to vote ON or before the first day
of January i'll tho year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine, as aforesaid. or that he has become
. nt a. nj it,IS tltn I,n
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 ii descendant of II 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 who has become Il naturaliXcd citizen
of the United States between the first day of
January III the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article shall he prima facic
evidence of any of said facts SO sworn to.
y wiltully false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to
any of the matters aforesaid shall he perjury,
and punishable as perjury is punished 10y the
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggrieved by the action
of any board of officers of registration in refus-
ing to register him aS II 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 cleC-
ton, file a 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 in Baltimore City, i'll 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 bc issued requiring the board of
officers of registration complained against in
said petition to attend ut the hearing in person
or ny counsel, and where the OBJ iCctOf the pct-
tion is To strike OH the name OF any person sum
Sbll l.l ftS
shall hc served by the sheriff within the time
therein designated; and said several courts
shall have fun jurisdiction and power to review
the action OF any board of officers of rCpiStra-
tion and to grant or withhold as il may deem
lawful and proper, the relief prayed for in the
premises
In determining whether any person who ap-
piled tn he registered under the above fifth
clause of this section was or was not entitled
court shall require the board of officers of reg
iStratiOn cOmplli 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 regiStra-
ton. complied with the requirements of said
fifth clause and if the court shall determine
that said written application, so prepared and
submitted 10y said person, complied with the
requirements of said fifth clause, and that said
person 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 II 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 books of registry in qucs
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