The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08
PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, at the January Session
of the General Assembly of Maryland,
held in the year of our Lord one thou
sand nine hundred and eight, an Act
was passed proposing an amendment
to Section 1 of Article 1 of the Consul
tuition of the State, which said Act is
in the following words, toWlt:
CHAPTER 26.
AN ACT to amend Section one of Ar
ticle one, title, Elective Fran
chise,'' of the Constitution of this
State, and to provide for the sub
mission of said Amendment to the
qualified voters of this State for
adoption or rejection.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly OF Maryland, three
fifths of all the members of each OF
the two Houses concurring, 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 Consti-
tuition of this State, and it adopted
by the legal and qualified voters
thereof, as herein provided, 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 every male citizen of the
United States of the age of twenty-one
years or upwards, who has been a
resident of the State for two years
and of the Legislative District of Bal
timore 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 ell
ection district 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 9TH
Il er officers, then to entitle a person to
vote for such officer, he must have
been a 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 person
who shall have acquired residence
in such county or city, emitting him
! to vote at any such election, shall be
entitled to vote in the election dis
i trict 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 a qualified voter II 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 of any other
State of the United States, wherein
he then resided; or second; male
descendant of such last mentioned
) person; or third: a foreign born citi-
zen of the United States naturalized
between the first day of January in
the year eighteen hundred and sixty
nine and the date of the adoption o1
: this section of this Article; or fourth
a male descendant of such last men
toned person; or fifth: a person who
in the presence of the officers of reg
istration, shall, in his own handwrit
ing, with pen and ink, without any
aid, suggestion or memorandum what
soever, and without any question OF
direction addressed to him by any O.
the officers of registration, make ap
plication to register correctly, stating
in such application his name, age
date and place of birth, residence ant
occupation at the time and for tht
two years next preceding, the name!
or names of his employer or employ
ers, if any, at the time and for thu
two years next preceding, and wheth
er he has previously voted, and If SO
the State, county or city and distric
or precinct in which he voted last
and also the name in full OF the PreS1
dent of the United States, of one o
the Justices of the Supreme Cour
of the United States, Of the Governo
of Maryland, of one of the Judges o
the Court of Appeals of Maryland ant
of the Mayor of Baltimore City, if th'
, applicant resides in Baltimore City
i or of one of the County Commission
ers of the county in which the appli
cant resides; and any person who il
unable to comply with the aforegoinI
5 requirements as to making applica
a ton for registration in his own hand
, writing, solely because he is physi
2 cally disabled from so doing; ol
4 sixth: a person, or the husband of I
2 person, who at the time of his appli
I cation for registration, is bona f1d'
owner of real estate or personal prop
erty in an amount of not less thar
five hundred dollars, is assessed there
for on the tax books of the City O.
Baltimore or of one of the countie!
of this State, has been such owner
: and so assessed for two years mex
: preceding his application for registra
ton; shall have paid and shall pro
duce receipts for the taxes on sait
, property for said two years and shall
at the time Of his application make
! affidavit before the officers OF regis
tration that he is, or that he is the
husband of the person who is the
: bona fide owner of the property 81
assessed to him or to her, as the case
l may be-, and that he or she has beer
5 such owner for two years next preced
: ing his application.
| No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be ent1
, tied to be registered as a qualified
! voter or be entitled to vote. Every
written application to be registered
. presented to the officers of registra
ton by any person applying to bt
E registered under the above f1ftf
clause, shall be carefully preserved
by said officers of registration ant
I shall be produced in any Court, If re
uuired, as hereinafter provided.
= The affidavit of any applicant TO