Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-09-10
PROCLAMATION.

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WHEREAS, at the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hum
dred and eight, an Act was passed pro-
posing an amendment to Section of Arti-
Gle of the Constitution of the State, which
said Act is in the following words, to-wit
CHAPTER 26.
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
adoption or rejection.
SECTION l. Be it 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,
title, Elective Franchise" of the Consti-
tuition of this State, and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof. as here
in provided, it shall supersede and stand in
the place and stead of Section one of said
Article one.
SECTION /. All elections shall be by ballot
anu CNCly iiIdiC CitiLCH vi tllC OlltCu OLdtCn
of the age of twenty-one years or upward
who has been a 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
daily fesl.lere5 as dudiueC .-c- aa
provided 10 ei1s article. shall be enlti.d
/ 70 vote IN the ward o. election iisffr, IN
I which he resides. at all elections hea-s se'
I 10 he held 10 tliis State, and tu apy
county or city snail be so diVid
form portions Of different electoral lst Is
for be- 5iecliOA y representative n
I efaSs senator's JaieF 10 OF other ers
} then 70 antitle person TO vote Tor such
officer he must have been q resiaent Of
/ mat paft 81 the CO i,F or city which shall
! tofm par u tli r'scto CD district IN
/ which -.e o..~lo - yo-~, ~ v..~ ye;-. next
preceding the election but person who
shall have acquired a 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 ne 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
having the above prescribed qualifications
of age and residence shall be entitled to be
registered so as to become qualified voter
If he be first: person who, on the first
day of January in the year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-nine, or prior thereto, was
| entitled to vote under the laws of this State
or of any other State in 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 January in the year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-nine and the date of the
adoption of this section of this Article OF
fourth: male descendant of such last men.
toned person 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 memo
randum whatsoever, and without any ques.
ton or direction addressed to him by any
of the officers of registration, make appli.
cation 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 EN-.
ployers, if any, at the time and for the two
years next preceding, and whether he has
previously voted, and if so, the State, county
or city and district or precinct in which he
| VOIeu last, ana also the name III Iul OF tnt
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 O
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 is unable to compl,
with the aforegoing requirements as t
making application for registration in hi
own handwriting, solely because he is phys
ically disabled from so doing or sixth {
person, or the husband of person, who
the time of his application for registration
is bona .tide owner of real or personal pro
perty in an amount of not less than fiv.
hundred dollars, is assessed therefor on thu
textbooks of the City of Baltimore or of one
of the counties of this State, has been sucl
owner and so assessed for two years mex
preceding his application for registration
shall have paid and shall produce receipt.
for the taxes on said property for said two
years and shall at the time of his appli
cation make affidavit before the officers Of
registration that he is or that he is the
husband of the person who is the bona fdt
owner of the property so assessed to him OF
to her, as the case may be, and that he OF
Sic HAS Uecn SUCH owner IOr TWO years
next preceding 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 emit
tied to vote. Every written application to
be registered, presented to the officer OF
registration by any person applyinp to he
registered under the above fifth clause
shall be carefully preserved nv said officers
of registration and shall be produced in anv
Court, if required, as hereinafter provided
The affidavit of any applicant for reeis-
tration, duly made to the officer Of reSie.
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