Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-17
CHAPTER 25S.

An Act to propose an Amendment 10
Article OF the Constitution of this state
known as Section 5. to follow Section
and TO provide for the submission OF
said Amendment 10 the qualified voters OF
Section l. Be il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-hfths OF
all members of each of the two houses
concurringl. that the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment TO Article ! OF the Constitu-
ton of this state which said section. IL
adopted by the qualified voters OF this
State, shall stand as an additional section
to said Article /. to be known as Section
5, to follow Section Z, of said Article.
Section 5. Al-State and municipal cleo
lions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Bal
lot System. and il shall be the duty of
the General Assembly to provide by
Ipr r0 Gt. pdiloe' wi e1t
elections I'm 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 or 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-
lions shall not be abolished by the Cen
eral Assembly unless by vote of four
hfths of all the members of each house.
The right TO be registered as a qualil
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
tons of this Article, possessing the quail
ifications as to age and residence men.
toned in Section of this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tons of this Article possessing the quail
fications as to age and residence men
toned in Section of this Article. who at
the time of his application for registra-
ton is the bona fde owner of real or
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 for
said two years, and shall at the time OF
his application make afhdaYit before the
officers of registration that he is the
bona fide owner of the property so as
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding his
IL any person other than those herein
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters al State
Elections in this State, then this section
shall be null and void and the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
"a n this section had never been adopted
and the laws of this State including II .
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereof relating to the form of ballot to
be used at elections, in force on the Z RS
day of July i'm the year nineteen hundred
and ten, Sn1ll revive OF continue III lNffE
until altered by the General Assembly
Notwithstanding any Acts TO the con
trary 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 pro
visions of this section to be valid.
Section 2. And be il further enacted. by
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 20 the legal and quail
fed voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection In pursuance of the dlrec-
lions contained in Article IA of the Con
stitution of this State. and at said Cen
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-
vided by law and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made 10 the
Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed Amendment as directed
by said Fourteenth Article of the Consti-
tuition.
Approved Apr. II, 1910.
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS,
(Great Seal) Governor.
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.