Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-09-18
CHAPTER 25s.

An Act TO propose an Amendment 10
Article ! of the Constitution of this State
by adding thereto a new Section, 10 Dc
known as Section s. 70 follow Section
and 10 provide for the submission OF
said Amendment to the qualified voters OF
this State for adoption or rejection. ,
Section !. BE il enacted by the Generai
Assembly of Maryland (three-nfths OF
all members OF each OF the two houses
concurring). that the following section De
and the same is hereby proposes as an
amendment to Article ! OF the Constitu-
ton OF this State. which said section. II
adopted by the qualified voters OF this
State, shall stand as an additional section
to said Article l. TO be known as Section
s. to follow Section Z, OF said Article.
Section s. All State and municipal cleo
tions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian BAT
lot System, and IL SHAH be the duty or
law for a form of ballot. uniform
throughout the State, for use at all state
elections in this State and provide that
ON said ballot after the name OF each
candidate thereon who may have been
duly nominated as the candidate OF any
political party organization, there
shall be printed the legal name of said
party or organization; equal representa-
ton of the minority party among the
judges and clerks of election, registers or
other officers performing similar func-
tions shall not be abolished by the Cen
eral Assembly unless by vote of four
fifths of all the members of each house.
The right to be registered as a qualii
fed voter and the right TO vote at any
state or municipal election IN TINS 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 qual-
ifications as 10 age and residence men.
toned in Section l of this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tions of this Article possessing the quail
fications as to age and residence mem
toned in Section ] Of this Article, who ~
the time of his application for regstra-
ton is the bona hde owner of real or
personal property, or both, in an amount
of not less than five hundred dollars. is
assessed therefor on the tax books of the
City of Baltimore or of one of the Coun-
ties of this State. has been such owner
and so assessed for two years next pre-
ceding his application for registration
shall have paid and shall produce re-
ceipts for the taxes on SAID property t3I
said two years, and shall at the time OF
his application make affidavit before the
officers of registration that he IS the
bona fide owner of the property as
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding MS
application.
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be regist cred as voters at State
Elections in this State, then this section
shall be null and void and the Genera
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as IL this section had never been adopted
and the laws of this State, including n
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereof, relating TO the form OF ballot I.
be used at elections, in force on the trsl
day of July in the year nineteen nhhdfeo
and ten shall revive or continue ~ force
until altered by the General Assembly
Notwithstanding any Acts to the con
trarv which may have been passed while
the terms of this section shall have been
i'm force or while the General Assembly
shall have believed or assumed the pro
visions of this section to be valid.
Section 9 And be IL further enacted. 10y
the authority aforesaid. that the afore-
said section hereby proposed as an
Amendment to the Constitution shall be
at the next General Election held in this
State submitted TO the legal and quail
fled voters thereof for their adoption OF
rejection In pursuance of the direc-
lions contained i'm Article IA of the Con
stitution of this State. and at said Gen
eral Election the vote on the said pro
posed Amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each bal
lot shall be printed the words. For
constitutional Amendment and Against
Constitutional Amendment" as now pro-
yfded by law, and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed Amendment. directed
by said Fourteenth Article of the ConstI-
tuition.
Approved Apr II, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,
(Great Seal) Governor.
A. p. GORMAN, JR.,
President of the Senate
ADAM PEOPLES.
Speaker of the House of Delegates