The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-29


Gle one, title, effective 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 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 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-one years
or upwards, who has been a 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 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
Representative 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 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
qualihcati MS of age and residence shall
be entitled to be registered so as to be-
come 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 tc
vote under the laws of this State, Oh
any other State of the United States
wherein he then resided or second {
male defendant. of such last mentioned
person or third : foreign born citi
zen Of the United Stat s naturalizeC
| between the first day of January in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty-nint
and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article: or fourth a
male descendant of such last mentioned
person or fifth a person who, in the
presence oil. the officers of registration
shall, in his own handwriting, with
pen and ink, without any aid, sugges.
| ton or memorandum whatsoever, an(
| without any question or direction ad
dressed to him by anv of the Ulcers q
registration, MAKE arpiicati, n
to register correctly, stating i,
such application his name, age date anC
place of birth, residence aud occupa.
ton at the time and for the two years
nsxt proceeding, the name or names 0.
his employer or employers, if any, a
the time and for the two years mex
| preceding, and whether he has previ
ously voted, aud if SO, the State, coun
ty or city and district or precinct il
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 tho Court of Appeals Of
Maryland and of the Mayor of Balti
City, if the applicant resides in Balti-
more City, or Of one County Cpmmiss-
Toner of the county III which the an.
plicant resides ard any person who is
unable to comply with the aforegoing
requirements as tQ making application
for registration in his own handwrt.
ing, solely because he is physically
disabled from so doing; or SIXTH a FER
son, or the husband Of a person, who
at the time of his applicable n for re-
gistration is a bona fide owner of real on
personal property in an amount Of not
less 'h1H five hundred dollars, is assessed