The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-08-21
CHAPTER 20.

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. !. ALI elections shall be by ballot. and
every male citizen of the United States of the age
of twenty one years or up wards, 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 Preceolng Ine elecalon, ana VINO, more
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 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 him to vote at any such
district from which he removed. until he shall
have acquired 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,
scendant of such last mentioned person; or third:
foreign born citizen of the United States natur-
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 NTH IN person who in the
his own handwriting, with pen and ink, without
any aid, suggestion or memorandum whatsoever,
f bm by q @ Of
make application to register correctly, stating
in such application his name, age, date and place
of birth, residence and occupation at the time
or names of his employer or employers il any,
at the time and for the two years next preced-
a1 a6e ss ne aas dP an
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
in Baltimore City, or of one of the County Com
missi0ners of the county in which the applicant
resides and any person who Is unable to COM
ing application Representation In his own hand
writing, solely because he is physically disabled
from so doing; or sixth: a person, or the hus-
band of person, who at the time of his applica-
ton for registration, is bona tide owner of real
or personal property in an amount of not less
than five hundred dollars, Is assessed therefor
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, OF
that he is the husband of the person who Is the
bona tide owner of the property so assessed to
him or to her, as the case may be, and that he OF
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 to vote. Every
to the officers of registration by any person APP
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.
The affidavit Of any applicant for registration
duly made to the officers of registration or in
Court, that he, the applicant, is person who
was entitled to vote on or before the first day OF
January, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine, as aforesaid, or that he has become
naturalized citizen of the United States be-
tween the first day of January, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-nine, and the date of the
adoption of this Article, as aforesaid, or his aft
davit upon information and belief that he is q
descendant of person who was entitled to vote
on or before the first day of January, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty mine, or that he is a
allied citizen of the United States between the
first day of January, in the year eighteen hun
bred and sixty-nine, and the date of the adop'
ton of this section of this article, shall be primo
fGcie evidence of any of said facts so sworn to.
a wilfully 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
Any person who feels aggrieved by the actor
of any board of officers of registration in refus'
ing to register him as qualified voter, or IL
registering any disqualified person, may at any
time, either before or after the last session OF
the board of officers of registration, but not later
than the Tuesday next preceding the election
file petition. verified by affidavit, in the Circuit
Court for the county in which the cause of com
plant arises or, if the cause of complaint arise
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 ofcers of registration
corrected. The court shall forthwith set the
petition for hearing and direct summons to bt
Issued recurring the board of officers of regiStra
ton complained against in said petition to at
tend at the hearing In person or by counsel, and
where the object of the petition is to strike of
the name of any person, summons shall also bG
issued for such person, which shall be served b.
the Sheriff within the time therein designated
and said several courts shall have full jurisdic
of officers of registration and tO grant or with
hold, as It may deem lawful and proper, the re
lief prayed for in the premises.
In determining whether any person who ap
piled to be registered under the above fifth
clause of this section was or was not entitled tt
be registered under said fifth clause, the couri
shall require the board of officers of registration
complained against to produce the written ap
plicatiOn prepared and submitted by such per
son at the time he presented himself for regis
tration to said board of officers of registration
and upon said written application the court shall
determine whether or not said person, when he
presented himself for registration, complied
with the requirements of said fifth clause (; and
If the court shall determine that said written ap
plication, so prepared and submitted by said per
son, complied with the requirements of said fiftt
clause, and that said person was not disqualified
under any other provision of this Article of the
Constitution to be registered upon the books OF
registry in question, then the Court shall order
but il the Court shall determine that said writ
ten application of said person failed to comply
with the requirements OF said fifth clause, OF
that said person was in any other respect under
this Article of the Constitution disqualified tC
be registered upon the books of registry in Quee
ton. then the court shall order that said person
shall not be registered upon said books OF
registry: :. ,,oroo onv oraor hv attach
shall shall have any right Of removal; exception MAY
be taken to any ruling of the court at the hear.
ing of said cases and an appeal shall be allowed
such he appeals 8 shall Be taken within i've day.
from the date of the decision complained of, and
shall be heard and decided by the Court of Ap-
peals upon the original papers, or otherwise, az
the Court of Appeals may by rule prescribe, as
soon as may be practicable.
The General Assembly shall have power tC
provide more fully by legislation not jnconsis
tent with this section Of this Article for the
hearing and determination of all such cases,
SEc.2. And be it further enacted by the au.
IQOflby dIOrtcdlus 4udb buC hAOECBOAuB bOCgiOL
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con.
stitutlon of this State shall be at the next Gen.
eral Election for members of the General AS
sembly to be held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their adop-
ton or rejection, in pursuance of the directions
contained in Article XIV of the Constitution OF
this State, and at said general election the vote
on the said proposed amendment shall be bV
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be prin-
ted the words "For the Constitutional Amend
mentn and Against the Constitutional Amend
ment" as now prescribed by law, and immedi-
ately after said election due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by the
said Article XIV of the Constitution.
Approved February Is, 1908.
Now, therefore, /. Austin L. Crothers, Cover
nor of the State of Maryland, in pursuance OF
fhe provisions of Section !, of Article IA OF the
Constitution of the State of Maryland, do here
BY order and direct that copy of said Act pro-
posing an amendment to Section of Article OF
the Constitution of said State, be published In
at least two newspapers in each of the counties
of Baltimore, one of which shall be published In
the German language, once week for at least
three months preceding the next General Elec-
tiou, which election will be held on November
I'd, 1909, at which election the said proposed
amendment shall be submitted. In the form and
manner prescribed by the General Assembly, to
the legal and qualified voters of the State for
their adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
49, of the State of Maryland. Done at the
SEAL kCity of Annapolis, this first day OF
49, July. one thousand nine HUNDRED and
nine. AUSTIN Il. ChOTHEhS.
BY THE GOVERNOR:
July 24-l3tl Secretary Of State.