The Democratic advocate., 1909-08-13
PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, at the January Session
of the General Assembly OF Maryldhu'
held in the year of our Lord one tnou-
sand nine hundred and eight, an Act
was passed proposing an amenomenI
to Section 1 of Article OF the consul
tuition of the State, which said ACT Is
in the following words, to-w1t:
CHAPTER &c.
AN ACT to amend Section one of Ar
ticIe one, title, Elective Fran
cbise." of the Constitution OF this
State, and to provide for the SUD-
mission of said Amendment to the
qualified voters of this State for
adoption or rejection.
Section /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of Maryland, tnree.
fifths of all the members OF eacn OF
the two Houses concurring, that the
following section be and the same Is
hereby proposed as an amendment 10
Section one of Article one, ltle'
Elective Franchise" Of the Consd-
tuition of this State, and 1t adopted
by the legal and qualified voters
thereof, as herein provided, II snali
supersede and stand in the place and
one.
Sec. 1. All elections shall be by
ballot, and every male citizen OF the
United States of the age of twenty-one
wears or upwards, who has been a
resident of the State for two years
and of the Legislative District of Bal
timore 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 ell
ection district in which he resides, 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
| Congress, Senators, Delegates or 9TH
er officers, then to entitle a person to
vote for such officer, he must have
been a resident of that part of the
county or city which shall form a
part of the electoral district in which
| he offers to vote, for one year 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 dis
| trict 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 having the above prescribed
! qualifications Of age and residence
shall be entitled to be registered so
as to become a qualified voter if he
be, first; a 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 United States, wherein
| he then resided; or second; male
descendant of such last mentioned
| person; or third: foreign born clt1-
zen of the United States naturalized
| 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:
| a male descendant of such last men
| toned person; or fifth: person who,
| in the presence of the officers of reg
| istration, shall, in his own handwrlt-
! ing with pen and ink, without any
aid, suggestion or memorandum what
/ soeVer, and without any question or
| direction addressed to him by any of
! the officers of registration, make ap-
p1ication 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 names
| or names of his employer or employ
ers, if any, at the time and for the
! two years next preceding, and WheJh-
er he has previously voted, and II So
| the State, county or city and district
or precinct in which he voted last,
end also the name in full OF the RresI-
| dent 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 of Maryland and
of the Mayor of Baltimore City, II the
applicant resides in Baltimore City,
or of one of the County Commission
ers of the county in which the appli-
cant resides; and any person who is
| unable to comply with the aforegoing
requirements as to making appl1ca-
ton for registration in his own hand
writing, solely because he is phyS1-
cally disabled from so doing; or
sixth: a person, or the husband or a
| person, who at the time of his appl1-
cation for registration, is bona fide
owner of real estate or personal prop
erty in an amount of not less than
| five hundred dollars, is assessed there
for on the tax books of the City OF
Baltimore or of one Of the counties
| of this State, has been such owner
and so assessed for two years next
preceding his application for registra-
ton; shall have paid and shall pro-
duce 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 regis
| tration that he is, or that he is the
husband of the person who is the
bona fide 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 preced-
ing his application.
No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be ent1-
tied to be registered as quallned
voter or be entitled to vote. Every
written application to be registered
presented to the officers of reglstra-
ton by any person applying to be
registered under the above fifth
clause. shall be carefully preserved
bIy cold officers of registration and