The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-10-30

SIONERS FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY.
ONE PERSON FOR SURVEYOR FOR BAL
TIMORE COUNTY.
SIX PERSONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE OF DELEGATES FROM BALTI-
And for the purpose of voting for the approval
or rejection Of PROPOSED AMENDMENT
TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
OF MARYLAND, said proposed Amendment
being as follows
CHAPTER 49,
AN ACT to amend Section one of Article one.
title, Effective Franchise" of the Constitu-
ton of this State, and to provide for the submits
sion of said Amendment to the qualified voters
of this State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION ]. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, three-fifths 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
Constitution of this State, and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided, it shall supersede and stand in the place
SECT Ali eiections shall IHi be- by belIot and
every male citizen of the United States of the age
of twenty one years or up wards, 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
bas ~ ~ OF O.1e ,
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 per-
son who shall have acquired residence in such
county or city, emitting him to vote at any such
nj RI in no oil
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 as
to become qualified voter If he be- first per-
son who, on the first day of January in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty nine or prior there
to, was entitled to vote under the laws of this
State, of any other State of the United States,
wherein he then resided; or second: male de-
scendant of such last mentioned person; or third:
foreign born citizen Of the United States natur-
allied 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 Arti
Gle; or fourth: male descendant of such last
mentioned 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 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,
ing, and whether he has previously voted, and
if so, the State. county or city and district or
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
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
Tnica Of o0nnfV which
resides and any person who is unable to COM
ply with the aforegoing requirements as to max
ing application characterization in his own hand
writing, solely because he is physically disabled
from SO doing; or sixth: a person, or the hus-
band of person, who at the time of his applica-
tion for registration, is bona tide owner Of real
or personal property in an amount of not less
than five hundred dollars Is assessed therefor
on the tsxbooks Of the City of Baltimore or Of
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 for two years next pre-
No person not qualified under some one of the
above clauses shall be entitled to be registered
written application to be registered, presented
to the officers of registration by any person APP
plying to be registered under the above fifth
clause shall be carefully preserved by said Off
GERS of registration and shall be produced in any
Court. If required, as hereinafter provided.
The affidavit Of any applicant for registration,
duly made to the officers of registration or in
Court. that he, the applicant, is a 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 naturalized 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 aft
davit upon information and belief that he is
descendant of person who was entitled to vote
on or before the first day of January, In the year
eighteen hundred and sixty mine, or that he is
descendant of person who has become a naLur-
allied citizen of the United States between the
first day of January, In the year elgnteen lun-
dred and sixty-nine, and the date OF Lne aoop-
ton of this section of this article, shall be pTt0
fdcie evidence of any of said facts SO sworn to.
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
Any person who feels aggrieved by the action
of any board of officers of registration in refus-
ing to register him as 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,
Court for the county in which the cause of COM
plant 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 and asking to have
the action of the board of officers of registration
corrected. The court shall forthwith set the
petition for hearing and direct summons to be