The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-09-03
Proclamation.


WHEREAS, at the January Session of
the General Assembly of Maryland, held
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and eight, an Act was
passed proposing an amendment to
Section of Article of the Constitution
of the State, which said act is in the
following words, to-wit:
CHAPTER rs.
IAN ACT to amend Section ones of
/ Article one, title, Elective Fran
chise,, of the Constitution of this
State, and to provide forthe submission
of said Amendment to the qualified
voters of this State for adoption or
rejection.
| SECTION l. Be 1t 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, tite Effective franchise Of the
Constitution Of this State, and If adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof. herein pro.
yided, it shall supersede and stand In the place
and stead of Section one of said Article one.
SEC. 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
| 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 preceding1the election, and who, moreover,
is duly registered as 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,
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 en-
/ title person to yote,for such ofhcer, ne must
have been 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 person who shall
have acquired residence in such county or city,
emitting him to vote at any such elections, shall
be entitled to vote in the election district from
which be removed. until he shall have acquired
residencelin 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 If he be- first: q
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
l 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 foreign born citizen of the United
States naturalized between the first day OF Janu.
uary in the year eighteen hundred and sixty.nine
and the date of the adoption of this section OF
this Article; or fourth male descendant 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, with
| out any aid, suggestion or memorandum whatso.
ever, and without any question or direction ad-
dressed to him by any OF the officers of regis
tration. make application to register correctly
stating in such application his name. age, date
and place of birth. residence and occupation at
the time and for the two years next preceding
the name or names of his employer or employers,
If any at the time and for the two years next pre-
ceding, and whether he has previously voted, and
and If 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 Baltimore City, if
the applicant resides in Baltimore City, or OF one
of the County Commissioners of the county in
which the applicant resides; and any person who
Il is unable to comply with the aforegoing require
ments as to making application for registration
in his own handwriting, solely because he is
vtr Cd from SO Mi aiyfh a
person, or the husband of person. who at the
time of his application for registration. is bona
fsde owner of real or personal property in the
amount of not less than five hundred dollars, is
assessed therefor on the tax books of the City of
Baltimore or of one of the counties Of this State.
has been such owner and so assessed for two years
next preceding 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 be-
fore the officers of registration that he is or that
be 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, and that he or she
has been such owner for two years next preced.
ing his application.
No person not qualified under some one of the
above clauses shall be entitled to be registered as
a qualified voter or be entitled to vote. Every
written application to be registered presented to
the officers Of registration by any person applying
to be registered under the above ffthl clause,
shall be carefully preserved by said officers of
registration and shall be produced in any Court
if required, as hereinafter provided.
The AFFIDAVIT ofany application for registration,
duly made to the officers of registration or in
Court that he, the applicant, is a 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 a
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, aiore
said, or his affidavit upon Information and belief
that he Is descendant of person who was en-
titled to vote or before the first day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. or