Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-09-18
Special Notices.
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| 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.
- Seutbiy ot Naryiatd, Hree,ftthS ot all the
members Ct each Of the t,rO HouSeS cOHcHrrjng
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, it 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 as quail
fled voter as provided in this Article shall he
entitled to vote, in the ward or election dis
trct i'll which he resides, at all elections here
county or city shall be divided as to form
portions of different electoral districts for the
election of Representatives in Congress, Semi
tors, Delegates, or other officers, then to cnti-
tie Il person to vote for such officer he must
have been resident of that part of the county
or city which shal form part of the electoral
district in which he offers to vote, for one year
nc Nt preceding the election but Il person who
shall have acquired Il residence in such county
or city, emitting him to vote at any such clec-
tiOn, shall be entitled to vote in the election
district from which he removed, until he shall
have acquired Il residence in 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 he, first:
apcrson who, on the first day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and SiXty-ninc, 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
United States naturalized between the first day
OF January i'll the year eighteen hundred and
siNty-nine and the date of the adoption of this
section OF this Article; or fourth male de
Sccndant OF such last mentioned person or
fifth: IL person who, in the presence of the OIL
GERS of registration, SHALL in 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 regiStratiO make
Application to register correctly, stating in
such application his name, age, date and place
OF BIRTH residence and occupation at the time
ana 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 proceed
iuE, and whether he has previously voted, and
II so, the state, county or city and district or
precinct in which he voted last and also the
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 of
Maryland of one of the Judges of the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, and of the Mayor of Bal
timore city, if the applicant resides in I,alt-
more city, or OF one of the County Commits
nt ha
resides and any person who is unable TO com
ply with the afOregoing requirements aS to
making Application for registration i'll his own
hand writing, solely because he is physically
disabled from so doing or sixth il person, or
the husband of person, who at the time of his
application for registration, is IL bona-tidc own
err of real or personal property in an amount of
not less than five hundred dollars, is assessed
therefor on the taX-bOOkS of the City of Balti-
more or of one of the counties of this State has
been such owner and so assessed for two years
next preceding hiSapplication forrcgst ration:
shall have pad 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 owner of the property so
assessed to him or to her, rs the case 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 bc entitled TO be regis
tered as il qualified voter or bc entitled to vote
Every written application to he registered,
presented to the officers of registration by any
person applying to be registered under the
above fifth clause, shall be carefully preserved
by SAID officers of registration and shall bc pro
dlccu Ill any court. II required, as hereinafter
provided.
The affidavit of any applicant for regist r;,-
tion, duly made to the 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 i'll tho year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine hs aforesaid, or that he has become
Il naturaliIed citizen of the United States be
tween the first day of January in the year
eighteen hundred and siXty-ninc and the date
OF the adoption of this section of this Article,
;ts 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 in the year eighteen hundred
and stNty-ninc or that he is descendant of Il
person who has become naturaliXcd citizen
of the United States between the first day of
January III the year eighteen hundred and
sixty nine and the date of the adoption of this
section of this Article, shall be prma facc
evidence of any of said facts SO sworn to-
y wituly false statement upon the part of
any applicant for registration in relation to
any OF the matters aforesaid shall be perjury,
ana punishable as perjury is punished by the
laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggrievcd 10y the action
of any board of officers of registration in refuS-
ing to register him as "A 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 he clcc-
tiun, file petition, verified by affidavit in the
Circuit Court for the county in which the cause
oi complaint arises, or, II the cause of com
plant arises in baltimore City, in any 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 bC issued requiring the board of
officers of registration complained against in
said petition to attend at the hearing in person
or 10y counsel, and where the ObicctOf the prti-
ton is to strike on the name of any person sum
mons shall also he issued for such person which
shall he served by the sherih within the time
therein designated; and said several courts
shall have full jurisdiction and power to review
the action OF any board of officers of rcgistra-
tiOn and to grant or withhold, aS il may deem
lawful and proper, the relief prayed for i'm the
premises.
In determining whether any person who an
piled to bc registered under the above ifth
clause OF this section was not entitled
10 bc registered under said NTH clause, the
court shall require the board of officers of reg
istratiOn complained against to produce the
written application prepared and submitted 10y
such person 1T the time he presented himself
for registration to said board of officers of reg
iStHtiOn, and upon said written application
the court shall determine whether or not said
person, when he presented himself for rcgi>tTl.
tiOn, complied with the requirements Of said
hfth clause and ii the court shall determine
that said written application. So prepared aud
submitted 10y said person, complied with the
requirements of said NTH clause, and that said
person was not disqualified under any other
provision OF this Article at the Constitution tU
he registered upon the books of registry in
question, then the Court shall order said person
to bC registered aS u qualified voter, hut N tho
court shall determine that said written appi-
cation OF said person failed tu comply with the
requirements OF said NTH clause. Or that said
person was in any other respect under this
Article of the Constitution disqualified a. hc
registered upon the backs of registry la Vus'S-
tiOn, then the court shall order that said per