Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-10-02
Special Notices.
P PROCLAIM ALTON

amendment to Section | of Article of the
Constitution OF the State, which said Act is
in the following words, to wit:
CHIPTER 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.
S1ECTION l. Bcitc,actcd the Ge,.cuyd is
- Scn.by Ct .Nryiatd, Hree,ftthS IF all the
members Of each Of the t,rO HOuSeS cOncuFriug,
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 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 preceding the election and
who, moreover, is duly registered quail
fled voter as provided in this Article, shall he
entitled to vote, in the ward or election dis
triCt IN which he resides, at all elections here
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 Cnti-
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 IL part of the electoral
district in which he offers to vote, for one year
next preceding the clcctiOn but person who
shall have acquired Il residence in such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such clcc
ton, Shall bc entitled to vote i'll 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 L Unitcd States hav-
ing the above prescribed qualifications of age
and residence shall be entitled to he registered
SO as to become Il qualified voter If he he, first:
apcrSon 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 il
male descendant of such last mentioned per
son; or third foreign born citizen of the
United States naturaliIcd 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; or fourth: il male de
Scendant OF such last mentioned person ; or
fifth Il person who, in the presence of the OIL
GERS OF registration, shall, in his 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 registration, make
application to register correctly. stating in
such application his name, age, date and place
OF birth, resi- fence and occupation at the time
ana tor he two years next preceding, the name
or names OF his employer or employers, if any,
at the time and for the two year, next prcCcu
l"g, and whether he has previously voted and
II 50, TN" state, county or city and district or
precinct in which he voted last, and also the
name III tull OF the President of the nitcd
States, of one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States, OF the Governor of
Mary land OF one of the Judges of the Court of
Appeals OF Maryland, and of the MIyorof BAL
tInIUrC city, If the applicant resides in I5alti-
more City or of one OF the County Commis-
~ li.h ht. am
resides and amy person who is unable to com
ply with the atorcgOing requirements us to
making Application for registration in his own
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from so doing or sixth person, or
the husband OF person, who at the time OF his
application for reg giStratiOn, is Il bOna-tidc own
tr Ol real or personal property i'll an amount of
not less than five hundred dollars, is assessed
therefor ON the tax books of the City of lSalti-
more 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
ana shall at the time of his application make
affidavit before the officers of registration hat
he is, or that he is the husband of the person
VINO Is the bona hdc owner OF the property so
assessed to him or to her, as the case may he,
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 be entitled to hc regis
tered as Il qualified voter or be entitled to vote.
Every written application to be registered,
presented to the officers of registration 10y any
person applying to be registered under the
above tith clause, shall bc carefully preserved
10y sad officers of registration and shall be pro
duccu III any Court. II required, as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for rcgiStra
ton, duly made to he officers of registration or
i'll Court, that he, the applicant, is person who
was entitled to vote ON or before the first day
OF January in tho gear eighteen hundred and
sixty nInC. as aforesaid, or that he has become
IL natuIaliXCd 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,
as aforesaid, or his affidavit upon information
and belief that he is Il descendant of il person
who was entitled to vote on or before the first
day of January i'll the year eighteen hundred
and sixty nine, or that he is il descendant of Il
person who has become Il naturdliZcd citizen
OF the nltcd 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 be prima facic
evidence of amy of said facts SO sworn to.
y wiltully false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to
amy OF the matters aforesaid shall be perjury,
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggricvcd by the action
OF any board of officers OF registration in refuS-
ing to register him as Il qualified voter or in
registering amy disqualified person, may at any
time, either before after the last session of
the board OF officers of registration, but not
later than the Tuesday next preceding the clcc-
tom file Il petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county in which the cause
% II.
plaint arises in baltimore City, in amy 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 in
said petition to attend at the hearing in person
or ny counsel, and where the ObjcCtOf the pctl-
tiOn is to strike OF the name of any person sum
mons shall also bC issued for such person, which
shall be served 10y 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 rcgiStra-
tiOn ana to grant or withhold, as ii may deem
lawful and proper, the relief prayed for in tine
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
iStrtiOn cOmpl inCd az tinSt 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
lStratlOu, and upon said written application
the court shall determine whether or not said
person, when he presented himself for rcgiStra-
ton, complied with the requirements of said
ttth clause; and il 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
be registered upon the books of registry in
question, then the Court shall order said person
to be registered aS "A qualified voter, but if the
court shall determine that said written appli-
cation OF said person failed to comply with the
requirements of said NTH clause. or that said
person was in any other respect under this
Article of the Constitution disqualified to bc
registered upon the books of registry in tllIcS-
tiOn, then the court shall order that said per
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