The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-10-20
CHAPTER 253.

An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article ! or the Constitution Of this state
by adding thereto new Section, 10 De
and to provide for the submission Of said
Amendment to the qualified voters OF this
State for adoption or rejection?
al Assembly q Maryland (three-ffths OF
all members of each of the two houses
concurring), that the following section be
AND he e Article 4 q tie
ton Of this State. which said section, II
adopted BY the qualified voters OF this
sfafe 10 s eaid Artee to be Known
Section 8, to follow Section <, Of said
Section 8. All State and municipal cleo
lions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Ballot
System. and it shall be the duty Of the
d form q ballot. uniform Throughout the
State, for use at all State elections in
this State, and provide. that On said bal
lot after the name OF each candidate
ed as the candidate Of any political party
Or organization. there shall Be printed the
legal name Of said party or organization;
among the judges and clerks Of election
registers or other officers performing sim
lar function shall not BE- abolished Dy me ne
four ffths OF all the members OF each
house.
The right TO De registered as QUILL
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
lions Of this Article. possessing the quail
fcatisns as to age and residence mention
ed in Section i Of this Article.
disqualified BY the Second Or Third Sec
lions Of this Article possessing the quail
hcations as to age and residence mention.
the time OF his application for .registra-
ton is the bona 1de owner Of real or
personal property. or both: 10 an amount
assessed therefor on the taI books Of the
City Of Baltimore or Of one Of the
Counties Or this State, has been such
preceding his application for registration
shall have paid and shall produce receipts
for the taxes on said property for said
application make affidavit before the Or
fcers Of registration that he is the bona
fide owner of the property so assessed to
for two 1 years next preceding his appiIca-
ton.
II any person other than those herein
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
n hg 1ad the t ths
as II this section had never been adopted
and the laws or this State. including the
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereof, relating to the form of ballot to
be used at elections, in 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 2. And be II further enacted
by the authority aforesaid that the afore-
said section hereby proposed as 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
upon each ballot shall be printed the
words. For Constitutional Amendment
and Against 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 d.
rected by said Fourteenth Article OF the
Constitution.
AUSTIN L. CRoTHERS.
Great SeaD Governor.
President Of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.