The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-10-28

One person for County Surveyor of
Garrett county;
For the Constitutional Amendment,
Against the Constitutional Amend
ment, said proposed amendmenbto the
Constitution of the State of Maryland
being as follows:
CHAPTER u.
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
adoption or rejection.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland. three fttns of all the
members of each of the two Houses concur
ring, that the following section be and same
is hereby proposed a. an amenOment to Sec
ton one of Article one, title Ele"tive Fran
Chisc. of the Constitution Of this state, ana
if adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, it shall super
sede and stand in place and stead of Section
one Of said Article one.
SECTION /. All elections shall be by ballot,
and every male citizen Of the United states
OF the age OF twenty-One years or upward,
who has been a resident OF the state for two
Years ana OF Ilt Legislative IJlSJflCJ OF Btl
timOre city or Of the county in which lie may
offer to vote, for one year next preceding
the election, and who. moreover, is duly reg
iStered as a qualified voter as provided in
this Article. shall be entitled to vote, in the
ward or election district in which he resides,
at all elections hereafter to be held in this
State. ana in case any county or city shall
be so divided as TO form portions of differ
enU electoral districts for the election of Rep
reSentatiVes in Congress, senators, Dele
gates or other 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 part OF the electoral dis
trict in which he offers to vote for one year
next preceding the election; but a person
who shall have acquired a residence in such
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 IA 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 quali1CatlOnS
OF age ana residence shall be entitled to be
reg stored so as to become a qualified voter
If he be nrst: person VINO, ON the tlrst day
Of January in the year eighteen hundred ana
4 sixty nine. or prior thereto, was entitled to
vote under the laws of this state, or of any
other state in the United states, wherein he
then resided: or second: a male descendant
of such last mentioned person; or third a
foreign born citizen of the United states
naturali/ed between the first day Of Janu-
AIRY in the year eighteen hundred and sixty
nine and the date Of the adoption Of this
section Of this Article; or fourth u male de
scendant 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 WhHtSO-
ever. and without any question or direction
addressed to him by any Of the officers Of
registration, make application 70 register
correctly. stating In such application hls