The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-10-23

CHAPTER 26.
AN ACT to amend Section one of Article one,
title, effective Franchise" of the Constitu-
tion of this State, and to provide for the submis-
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
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 pro-
vided, it 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
of twenty 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 qualified voter as
provided in this Article, shall be entitled to vote,
in the ward or election district in which he re-
Sides 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 entitle person to vote for such officer,
he must have been q 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 per-
county or city, emitting him to vote at any such
election, shall be entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until he shall
have acquired a residence in the part of the
county or city to which he has removed
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: q male de-
scendant of such last mentioned person; or third:
QffiZan n States
allied 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 Arti-
Gle; 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, 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 preced-
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 Baltimore City, If the applicant resides
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
ply with the aforegoing requirementsas as to max
ing application egistration in his own hand
writing, solely because he is physically disabled
from so doing; or sixth: person, or the hus-
band of person, who at the time of his applica-
tion 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 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 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, 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 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 toyote. 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, if required, as hereinafter provided.