Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-10-30
Special Notices.
PROCLAIM ALTON

| year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eight, an Act was passed proposing an
| amendment to Section l of Article | of the
| Constitution OF the State, which said Act is
| in the following words, to wit
CHATTER 20.
| 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 adop-
ton or rejection.
CECTION |. BE il enacted the Geh.eard Is
- SUtbiy Of Maryldnd, Mree;ftthS Of all the
mamberS ot each ot tie t.rO Houses comcurrjng,
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 Constitution of this State,
and if adopted by the legal and qualified
voters thereof, as herein provided, 1t shall
supersede and stand in the place and stead
of Section one of said Article one.
SEC |. All elections shall he by ballot and
every male citizen of the L tnited States Of the
age of twenty one 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,
Tor one year next preceding the election, and
who, moreover, is duly registered as Il quail
entitled to vO4e, in the ward or election dis
triCt in which he resides, at all elections here
after to bc 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, Scna
tors, Delegates, or other officers then to enti-
tie Il person to vote for such officer, he must
have been Il resident of that part of the county
or city which shall form part of the electoral
district i'll which he offers to vote, for one year
next preceding the election but Il person who
shall nave acquired Il residence in such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such clec
tion, shall be entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until he shall
have acquired Il residence i'll the part OF the
county or city to which he has removed.
Every male citizen of the United States hay
ing the above prescribed qualifications of age
and residence shall he entitled to bc registered
So aS to become qualified voter il he be, first !:
Il 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 Il
male descendant OF such last mentioned per
son or third: Il fOreign-b born citizen of the
United States naturaized between the first day
of January i'll the year eighteen hundred and
sixty y-nine and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article; or fourth: male de
sccndant of such last mentioned person or
NTH: Il person who, in the presence OF the Offi-
GERS of registration, shall, in his own hand
writing, 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 registrations make
application to register correctly, stating i'll
such application his name, age, date and place
OF birth, residence and occupation at the time
and for the two years next proceed ing, the name
or names of his employer employers, if any,
at the time and for the two years next proceed
ing, and whether he has previously voted, and
il 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 Bal
tlmOrc city, II the applicant resides in lalti-
more tlty, or OF one OF the County Commits
sloncrs of the county in which the applicant
resides and any person who is unable to com
ply with the aioreROlng requirements aS to
making application for registration in his own
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from so doing or sixth: Il person, or
the husband of Il person, who at the time of his
Application Tor registration, is a bona fdc own
er OF real or personal property in an amount OF
not less than five hundred dollars is assessed
therefor on the taX-bOOkS of the City of lialti-
more orof one OF the counties of this State, has
been such owner and so assessed for two years
next preceding his application for registrations
shall have paid and snail 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 tde owner of the property so
assessed to him or to her, as the case may be-,
ana that he or she has been such owner for
two years next preceding his application.
No person not qualified under some one of
the above clauses shall be entitled to be regis
tered as Il qualified voter be entitled to vote.
Every written appiRatiOn to be registered,
presented to the officers OF regiSt ration by any
person applying to be registered under the
above NTH clause, shall be carefully preserved
by said officers of registration and shall he pro
duced in any Court, if required, as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for registra-
ton, duly made to the officers of registration
i'll Court, that he, the applicant, is Il person who
was entitled to vote on or before the first day
~ ~ ADI
sixty nine, as aforesaid, OF that he has become
IL naturalizcd citizen of the United states be
tween 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,
as aforesaid, or his affidavit upon Information
and belief that he is a descendant of Il person
who was entitled to vote on or before the first
day of January in the year eighteen hundred
ana sixty nine, or that he is descendant of Il
person who has become IA naturaliZed citizen
of the United States 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, shall he prma tacc
evidence of any of said facts sworn to.
wiltully false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to
any OF the matters aforesaid shall be perjury,
and punishable as perjury is punished by the
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggreved by the action
OF amy board OF officers of registration i'll refus
ing to register him as qualified voter, or in
registering any disqualified person. may at any
time, either before or after the last session of
thc BOARD OF OhcerS OF registration, but not
later than the Tuesday ncXt preceding the ccc-
tion, file petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county iii which the cause
of complaint arises, or, If the cause of com
plalnt arises in Baltimore City, in any court of
common law jurisdiction in said city, setting
forth the grounds of his application and asking
to have the action of the board OF officers of
registration corrected. The court shall forth
with set the petition for hearing and direct
summons to be issued requiring the board of
officers of registration complained against i'll
said petition to attend at the hearing i'll person
or by counsel, and where the ObjectOf the peti-
tiOn is to strike OF the name OF any person sum
mons shall also he issued for such person, which
shall be served by the sheriff within the time
therein designated; and said several courts
shall have full jurisdiction and power to review
the action of any board of officers of regiStra-
tiOn and to grant or withhold, AS il may deem
lawful and proper, the relief prayed for i'll the
premises.
In determining whether any person who ap-
piled to he registered under the above fifth
clause of this section was or was not entitled
to he registered under said NTH clause, the
court shall require the board of officers of reg
iStratiOn complained against to produce the
written application prepared and submitted by
such person ut the time he presented himself
for registration to said board of officers of reg
iStratOn, and upon said written application
| the court shall determine whether or not said
person. when he presented himself for reRistra
tiOn, complied with the requirements of said
fifth clause ; and ii the court shall determine
that said written application, so prepared and
submitted by said person, complied with the
requirements of said fifth clause and that said
person was not disqualified under any other
provision OF this Article of the Constitution to
he registered upon the books of registry in
question, then the Court shall order said person
to he registered as qualified voter, but IL the
court shall determine that said written appli-
cation of said person failed to comply with the
requirements of said fifth clause, or that said
person was in any other respect under this
Article of the Constitution disqualified to be
registered upon the books of registry in uueS-