Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-14
Special Notices.
PROCLAIM ALTON

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:
CHIrTER 20.
AN ACT to amend Section one of Article
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 adop-
ton or rejection.
I1ECTION l. BcHcnnctedbythc Geuca,m is
- Scmbiy ot' Noryiumd, Hrcc.ftth& ot all the
mcu,berS ot cach ot the tro H0"ScS conctrrji,g,
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed 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 nitCd States of the
age of twenty one years or upwards, who has
been II resident of the State for two years and
of the Legislative District of Baltimore City or
of the county in which he may Olcr to vote,
for one year next preceding the election, and
who, moreover, is duly registered aS II quail
fled voter provided in this Article shall he
entitled to vote, in the ward or election dis
trict III which he resides, at all elections here
after to be held in this state, and in case any
county or city shall he 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 cnti-
tie il 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 Il person who
shall have acquired a residence in such county
or city emitting him to vote at any such "lcc-
ton, shall hc 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 removed.
Every male citizen of the United States haV-
ing the above prescribed qualifications of age
and residence shall bc entitled to bc registered
us To become IL qualified voter if ne he, first :
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 nitcd
States wherein he then resided or second II
male descendant of such last mentioned per
son; or third Il foreign born citizen of the
United States naturaliHcd between the first day
of January i'll the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article; or fourth: ii male de
Sccndant of such last mentioned person or
htth: Il person who, in the presence of the Oili-
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 10y any of the officers of registrations make
app icatiOn to register correctly, stating in
SHCh 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 preccd-
ir%, and whether he has previously voted, and
II 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 ofYthc supreme
Court of the United States, of the Governor of
Mary land of one of the Judges Uflthc Court of
Appeals of Mary land and of the Mayor of Bal
1 Illl
more City, or OF one of the County COmmiS-
>iOncrS of the county i'll which the applicant
resides and amy person who is unable to com
ply with tine alOrcgOIng 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 person, who at the time of his
application for registration, is IL bona tdc own
cr OF real or personal property III an amount OF
not less than five hundred dollars is assessed
therefor on the tax books of the City of lati-
more of one of the counties OF this State, has
been such owner and so assessed for two years
next preceding his application for rcgiStrat ion:
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 a-tide 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 preceding his application.
No person not qualified under some one of
the above clauses shall bc entitled to he regis
Every written Application to he registered,
presented to the officers of registration by any
person applying to he registered under the
above NTH clause, shall be carefully preserved
by said officers of registration ana shall be pro
duccd i'll any Court, if required as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for rcgiSt ra-
tiOn. 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
of January in tho year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine, as aforesaid. or that he has become
IL naturaliHcd citizen of the United States be
tween the first day of January i'll the year
eighteen hundred and sixty nine and the date
OF the adoption of this section of this Article,
aforesaid, or his affidavit upon information
and belief that he is IA descendant of Il person
who was entitled to vote on or before the first
day of January in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty -ninC or that he is Il descendant of Il
person who has become mturaliZcd citizen
of the nitcd States between the first day of
January i'll the year eighteen hundred and
SiNty-nnc and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article, shall bc prima faCic
evidence of any of said facts sworn to.
y wiltully false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to
any OF the matters aforesaid shall he criury
and punishable as perjury is punished by the
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggricNCd by the action
of any board of officers of registration in refIIS
ing to register him as Il 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 rcgiStIutiOn bur not
later than the Tuesday next preceding the cIcc-
tiOn, file petition, verified by affidavit in the
Circuit Court for the county in which the cause
of complaint arises, or. if the cause of com
pant arises in Baltimore City, in any court of
common law jurisdiction i'll 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 he issued requiring the board of
officers of registration complained against in
said petition to attend ut the hearing in person
or ny counsel, and where the ohjcctof the pcti
tiOn is to strike OF the name of any person sum
mons shall also he issued forSuch person, which
shall be served by the sheriff within the time
therein designated; and said several courts
shall have fun jurisdiction and power to review
the action of any board of officers of rCgiStrd-
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 bc 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 reg
StTltiOn COmpl aimed against to produce the
written application prepared and submitted by
such person at the time he presented himself
for registration to said board of officers of reg
iStratiun, and upon said written application
the court shall determine whether or not said
person, when he presented himself for rCgiStra-
tiOn, complied with the requirements of said
fifth clause and if 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 be registered as Il qualified voter, but if the
court shall determine that said written Hppli-
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 10 he
registered upon the books of registry in uIIcS-
tiou, then the court shall order that said per