The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-09-17

SECTION /. Be il enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, three
fifths of all the members of each of the
two Houses concurring, that the follow
ing section be and the same hereby
proposed as an amendment to Section
one of Article one, title, Effective
Franchise" Of the Constitution of this
State, and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided, it shall supersede and stand in
the place and stead of Section one Of
said Article one.
SEC. All elections shall be by bal
lots, and every male citizen of the Unit
ed States of the age of twenty-sne 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 proceeding
the election, and who, moreover, is
duly registered as a qualified voter as
provided in this Article, shall be entitl-
ed to vote, in the ward or election dis
trict in which he resides, 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 en-
title person to vote for such officer,
he must have been resident of that
part of the county or city which shall
form part of the electoral district in
which he offers to vote, for one year
next preceding the election; but a per-
son who shall have acquired residence
in such county or city, emitting to vote
at any such election, shall be entitled
to vote in the election district from
which he removed, until~he shall have
acquired residence in the part of the
county or city to which he has re-
moved.
Every male citizen of the United
States having the above prescribed
qualificatiGn of age and residence shall
be entitled to be registered so as to be-
come qualified voter if he be, 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
any other State of the United States.
wherein he then resided; or second: a
male defendant. of such last mentioned
person ; or third a foreign born citi
zen of the United Stat es naturalized
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; or fourth a
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, sugges-
ton or memorandum whatsoever, and
without any question or direction ad
dressed 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 occupa-
ton at the time and for the two wears
nsxt proceeding, the name or names of
his employer or employers, if any, at
the time and for the two years next
proceeding, and whether he has preyi-
ously voted, and if SO, the State, coun-
tY 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 the Justices of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, of
the Governor of Maryland, of one of
the Judges of thu Court of Appeals of
Maryland and of the Mayor of Balti-
City, if the applicant resides in Balti-
more City, or of one County Commiss-
Toner of the county IN which the ap-
plicant resides : and any person who is
unable to comply with the aforegoin Q
requirements as to making application
for registration in his own handwrit-
ing, solely because he is physically
disabled from SO doing; or sixth; per
son, or the husband Of a person, who
at the time of his application for re-
gstration is bona tide owner of real or
personal property in an amount of not
less than five hundred dollars, is assessed
therefor on the taXbooks 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 preceding
his application for registration shall
have paid and shall 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 fde 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
precee ding his application.
No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be entitl-
20 be registered as a qualified voter or
De entitled to vote. Every written ap-
olication to be registered, presented to
be officers of registration by any per-
on applying to be registered under ahe
bove fifth clause, shall be carefully |
reserved by said officers Of registration
nd shall be produced in any Court, if |
equired, as hereinafter provided.