Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-09-22

| year OF our LORD, Nineteen Hundred ant
Ten. three acts were passed, one proposing
an Amendment to Article of the Consti
tuition, by adding thereto Section to b,
known as Section 8: one proposing al
Amendment to Section 2 of Article 3 O
said Constitution, and one proposing al
Amendment to Section of Article 3 O
said Constitution said Acts being respec
lively Chapters 253, 303 and 31S of tn,
Acts of the General Assembly of Marylan,
OF 1910, and which are in the words fol
lowing, to-wit:
CHAPTER 25S.
An Act to propose an Amendment I,
Article l of the Constitution of this Stat,
by adding thereto a new Section, to b,
known as Section s, to follow Section :
and to provide for the submission of sale
Amendment to the qualified voters of thi,
State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Genera
Assembly of Maryland (three- fifths of al
members of each of the two houses con
curring), that the following section be ant
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Article of the Constitution of thi'
State, which said section, if adopted by the
qualified voters of this State, shall stanC
as an additional section to said Article /
to be known as Section 8, to follow Sec.
ton 7, of said Article
SECTION 8. All State and municipal cleo.
tons shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australia Baiio,
System, and it shall be the duty VI the
General Assembly to provide by Law for 4
form of ballot. uniform through1ni the
state, for use at all State elections in 'his
State, and provide that on said BALI after
the name of each candidate thereon Who
may have been duly nominated as the
candidate of any political party or oraani-
cation, there shall be printed the ,eeal
name of said party or organization; equal
representation of the minority party among
the judges and clerks of elections. req
listers or other officers performinf SINH
lar functions shall not be abolished
by the General Assembly unless by vote
OF four-hfths OF all the members Of each
house
The right to be registered as a qualified
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
hcations as to age and residence mentioned
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
iicauons as to age and residence men
toned in Section of this Article. who at
the time of his application for registration
is the bona fide owner of real or personal
property, or both, in an amount of not less
than five hundred dollars, is assessed there
for 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 his application
for registration, shall have paid and shall
produce receipts for the taxes on said prom
erty for said two years, and shall at the
time OF his application make affidavit be-
lore 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 Tor two years next preceding his an
plicatiOn.
II any person other than those herein
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters at State
Elections in this State, then this section
shall be null and void and the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as II this section had never been adopted
and the laws OF 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 fen
snail survive or continue in force until al
tered by the General Assembly notwith.
standing any Acts to the contrary which
may have been passed while the terms ii
this section shall have been in force ri
while the General Assembly shall have
believed or assumed the provisions of tbi,
section to be valid
SECTION 2. And be it 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 voter.
thereof for their adoption or rejection. il
pursuance OF the directions contained ir
Article IA of the Constitution of this State
and at said General Election the vote or
the said proposed Amendment to the Con
stitution shall be by ballot, and upon eacl
ballot shall be printed the words, For Con
stitutional Amendment" and Against Con
stitutional Amendment" as now providef
by law, and Immediately after said elec
ton due return shall be made TO the Gov
ernor of the vote for and against said pro
posed Amendment, as directed by SAID
Fourteenth Article Of the Constitution.
Approved April II, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,
Great Seal) GOvernor
A. P. GORMAN, JR.,
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of DELEGATES.
CHAPTER 800.
An Act to amend Section 2 of Article 3
title, Legislative Department, of the Con
stitution OF this State and to provide fo
the submission OF said Amendment TO tn,
quailhed voters OF this State for adoption
or rejection.
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the Genera
Assembly Of Maryland, three fifths of nj
the members of each of the two House,
concurring. that the following section h,
and the same is hereby proposed as ar
Amendment to Section 2 of Article 8. title
Legislative Department" of the Constitu
ton of this State. and if adopted by tn,
legal and qualified voters thereof, as hereir
provided. said section shall supersede anc
stand in the place and instead of Section
OF Article 3 of the Constitution of Mary
land
2. The City of Baltimore shall be dividec
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may be of equal population and of contie
uous territory, and each of said Legislative
Districts of Baltimore City, as they ma,
from time TO time be laid out, in accord
ance with the provisions hereof, and eacl
county of the State. shall be entitled TO one
Senator who shall be elected by the quail
fed voters of said Legislative Districts OF
Baltimore City, and of the counties of the
State. respectively, and Baltimore City shall
be entitled to two additional Senators. VIII,
shall be elected at large, by the qualified
voters of the said City, and all of sale
senators shall serve for four years from
the date Of their election, subject TO the
classification of Senators hereinafter pro
vided for
SECTION 2. And be il further enacted b,
the authority aforesaid, that the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an Amend
ment to the Constitution, shall at the next
election for members of the General AS
sembly of this State 10 hc bald on ~,