The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-09-04
CHAPTER 2e.

AN ACT to amend Section one of Article one,
title, effective Franchise, - of the Constitu-
tion of this State, and to provide for the submis
sion of said Amendment to the qualified voters
of this State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, three7ffths of all the mem
bers 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, title. Elective franchise" of the
legal and qualified voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided, it shall supersede and stand in the place
and stead OF Section one OF sag Article one.
every male citizen of the United States of the age
of twenty years or upwards, who has been
Legislative District of Baltimore City or of the
county in which he may offer to vote, for one
year next preceding the election, and who, more
over, 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 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 a 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
election, shall be entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until he shall
have acquired a 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
to become qualified voter If he be, first per-
son who, on the first day of January in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty mine, or prior there
to, 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: male de-
scendant of such last mentioned person; or third:
a foreign born citizen of the United States natur
allied between the first day of January in the
av11 al a4w.r
date of the adoption of this section of this Arti-
Gle; or fourth: male descendant of such last
mentioned personi 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 whatsoever,
and without any question or direction addressed
to him by any of the officers of registration,
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 preced-
ing, and whether he has previously voted, 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 Com
missioners of the county in which the applicant
resides and any person who is unable to COM
ing application egistration in his own hand
writing, solely because he is physically disabled
from so doing; or sixth: person, or the nus
band of person, who at the time of his applica-
tion for registration, s a bona tide owner of real
or personal property IN an amount of not less
than five hundred dollars, is assessed therefor
on the taxbooks 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 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, or
that he is the husband of the person who is the
bona fde 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 Tor 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
written application to be registered, presented
to the officers of registration by any person ap-
plying to be registered under the above nfth
GERS of registration and shall be produced in any
Court if required, as hereinafter provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for registration,
dulv 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
a naturaized 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 af-
davit upon information and belief that he is a
descendant
on or before the first day of January, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty mine. or that he is a
descendant of person who has become natur-
allied citizen of the United States between the
first day of January, in the year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-nine, and the date of the adop-
tion of this section of this article, shall bepriDG
fdcie 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
this State.
of any board of officers of registration in refus-
ing to register him as a qualified voter, or in
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
plaint arises or If the cause of complaint arises
in Baltimore City, in any court of common laws
Jurisdiction in said city. setting forth the
grounds Of his application ana ASKING 81 % nave
corrected. The court shall forthwith set the
petition for hearing and direct summons 70 De
Issued requiring the board OF o1ncere OF reglstra-
tion complained against in said petition TO at
tend al the hearing in person or by counsel, and
where the object of the petition Is 10 strlke on
the name of any person. summons snail also be
issued for such person, which shall be served by
the Sheriff within the time therein designated ;
and said several courts shall have full jurisdic-
fion and power to review the action of any board
Of officers of registration and to grant or with
hold. as il 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 to
be registered under said fifth clause, the court
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