The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-15
CHAPTER 253.

An Act to propose an Amendment 70
Article ! OF the Constitution or this state
by adding thereto q new Section, TO be
known as Section 8. to follow Section
and to provide for the submission OF said
Amendment to the qualified voters Of this
State for adoption or rejection?
Section !. Be it enacted by the Gener..
al Assembly Of Maryland lthree- ffths OF
all members of each Of the two houses
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment to Article ! Of the Constitu-
tion Of this State. which said section, if
sdoPted bE the qualified y9teFs q tbs
ton to said Article =. to Be known o.
Section 8, to follow Section Z, Or said
Section 8. All State and municipal cleo
tions shall be conducted BY the system
commonly known as the Australian Ballot
General Assembly to provide by law for
form Of ballot, uniform throughout the
State, for use at all State elections in
lot after the name Of each. candidate
thereon who may have been duly nominal
ed as the candidate Of any political party
eeai name Of said party or %
equal representation of the minority party
among the judges and clerks Of election
liar function shall not b. abolished BY the
General Assembly unless by vote OF
four-dfths Of an the members Of each
house
The right to be registered as q quail
fed voter and the right to vote at any
State or municipal election in this State
shall be limited to the following persons:
First: Every male white citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
lions of this Article. possessing the quail
adons as to age and residence mention
ed in Section 1 of this Article.
| Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tons Of this Article possessing the quail
fcations as to age and residence mention
ed In Section ! OF this Article. who at
the time OF hi application for registra-
ton is the bona hde owner OF real or
or not less than i've hundred dsllars, i
assessed therefor on the tax books or the
City Of Baltimore or Of one Of the
owner and SO assessed for two years next
preceding his application for registration,
shall have paid and shall produce receipts
two years, and shall at the time Of his
application make affidavit before the Of
ficers of registration that he is the bona
! him and that he has been such owner
for two years next preceding his applica-
ton.
mentioned shall b. Or become legally En-
titled to be registered as voters at State
Elections In this State. then this section
assembly sa shall aP possess he ne same poWeTs
as If this section had never been adopted.
and the laws Of this State. including the
local laws 10 CeFIHln
thereof, relating to the form Of ballot to
be used at elections, il force on the first
day of July in the year nineteen hundred
and ten, shall revive or continue in force
until altered by the General Assembly not
withstanding any Acts to the contrary
which may have been passed while the
terms Of this section shall have been in
force or while the General Assembly shall
have believed or assumed the provisions
OF this section to be valid.
Section p And BE- IT further enacted.
by the authority aforesaid that the afore-
said section hereby proposed AZ an Amend
ment to the Constitution shall be at the
next General Election held in this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection,
in pursuance OF the directions contained
in Article Il of the Constitution Of this
State, and at said General Election the
vote on the said proposed Amendmnt to
the Constitution shall be by ballot; and
words. For Constitutional Amendment
as now provided by law. and immediate
ly after said election due return shall be
made to the Governor OF the vote for and
against said proposed Amendment, as di-
rected by said Fourteenth Article OF the
Constitution.
Approved Apr. III, 1910
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS.
(Great SeaD Governor.
A. P. GORMAN, ",
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.