Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-10-16
Special Notices.
P PROCLAIM ALTON

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.
OtECTION |. BE IL cHdctedby the GeltearU Is
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meUtbcrS Ct each Ct the tco UomSeS cOncuIring,
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 l. All elections shall be by ballot, and
every male citizen of the United States of the
age of twenty years or upwards, who has
been resident of the State for two years and
of the Legislative District of Baltimore City
of the county i'll which he may offer to vote,
for one year next preceding the election, and
who, moreover, is duly registered aS Il quail
fed voter provided in this Article, shall he
entitled to vote in the ward or election dis
trct III which he resides, at all elections here
after 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 i'll Congress- Sena-
tors, Delegates, or other officers, then to enti-
tie 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 i'll which he offers to vote, for one year
next preceding the election; but II person who
shall nave acquired Il residence i'll such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such elcC-
ton, shall bc entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until he shall
have acquired Il residence i'll the part of the
county or city to which he has removed.
Every male citizen of the United States hay
ing the above prescribed qualifications of age
and residence shall he entitled to be registered
SO as to become il qualified voter if he be, 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 United
States, wherein he then resided or second il
male descendant of such last mentioned per
son; or third Il foreign born citizen of the
| nltcd States naturaliZcd 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 IL male de
Sccndant of such last mentioned person or
fifth person who, in the presence of the Off
GERS OF registration, shall, i'll his own hand
writing, 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 50, the State county or city and district or
precinct i'll which he voted last and also the
name i'll 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
Mary land, of one of the Judges of the Court of
Appeals OF Maryland, and of the Mayor of Bal
tlmorc city, If the applicant resides in lati-
more City, or of one of the County COmmiS-
siOncrS OF the county in which the applicant
resides and any person who is unable to com
ply with the atoregolng requirements as to
IIb,T. hi
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from so doing or sixth {: IL person, or
the husband OF Il person. who at the time of his
appllCdtlOn fOr registration, Is Il bona fldc own
cr OF 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 liati-
more or OF one of the counties of this State, has
been such owner and 50 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 before the officers of registration that
he is, 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 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 be entitled TO be regis
Tered as il qualified voter or be entitled to vote
Every written application to he registered,
presented to the officers OF regiSt StratiOn by any
person applying to be registered under the
above tifth clause, shall he carefully preserved
uuccd III any Court, II required, as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for registri-
tom duly made to the officers of registration or
i'll Court that he, the applicant, is IL person who
was entitled to vote on or before the first day
of january i'll the year eighteen hundred and
Sixty nlnc, as aforesaid, or that he has become
naturaiZed citizen of the United States be
tween 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,
as aforesaid, or his affidavit upon Information
and belief that he is a 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 descendant of Il
person who has become ii naturaliZed citizen
OF the l nltcd States between the hist day OF
January in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine ana the date OF the adoption of this
section of this Article, shall be prma facie
evidence of any 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
and puniS ablc as perjury is punished by the
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggrieved by the action
of any board of officers of registration in refus
ing to register him us 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 registration, but not
later than the Tuesday next preceding the cleo
tiOn, file petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county i'll which the cause
OF complaint arises, or, If the cause of com
plant arises i'll Baltimore CITY, i'll 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 bc issued requiring the board of
officers of registration complained against in
said petition to attend at the hearing i'll person
or 10y counsel, and where the ObjcctOf the petit
tiOn is to strike of the name of any person sum
mons shall also be issued for such person, which
shall be served by the sheriff within the time
therein dcsignated and said several courts
shall have full jurisdiction and power to review
ton and to grant or withhold, as it may deem
lawful and proper, the relief 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 reg
written application prepared and submitted by
such person at the time he presented himself
for registration to said board of officers of reg
iStratiOn, 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
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 he registered aS Il qualiticd voter, but If the
court shall determine that said written appli-
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 to he
registered upon the books of registry in qucs
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