Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-11-03
TUESDAY. the 9TH day Of
November, 1911,

SONOAOOAe AOA1O
| for the purpose of electing one person fol
Governor of the State of Maryland; one per-
son for Comptroller of the Treasury of the
State of Maryland; one person for Attor-
ney General of the State of Maryland; one
person for Judge of the Sixth Judicial Cir
cult OF Maryland; four persons for Dele
gates to represent Montgomery county in
the Maryland House of Delegates: three
persons for Judges of the Orphans Court
for Montgomery county; one person for
County Commissioner for the Third Collec-
ton District of Montgomery county; one
person for County Commissioner for the
Fourth Collection District of MONTGOMERY
county; one person for States Attorney OF
MONTGOMERY county one person for Sheriff
OF Montgomery county; one person for
County Surveyor of Montgomery county; for
the Constitutional Amendments; against
Constitutional Amendments.
CHAPTER 253.
An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article Of the Constitution of this State
by adding thereto a new Section, to be
known as Section 8, to follow Section 7
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 General
Assembly of Maryland (three-fifths of all
members of each of the two houses con-
curringO, that the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Article of the Constitution of this
State, which said section, if adopted BY the
qualified voters of this State, shall stand
as an additional section to said Article 1.
to be known as Section 8, to follow Sec
ton z, of said Article.
SECTION 8. All State and municipal cleo
tons shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Ballot
System, and it shall be the duty of the
General Assembly to provide by 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 or oreani-
cation, there shall be printed the leeal
name of said party or organization; equal
representation of the minority party among
the judges and clerks of elections, req.
listers or other officers performing SINH
lar functions shall not be abolished
by the General Assembly unless by a vote
of four-fifths 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
tons of this Article, possessing the quail
tications 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
| fications as to age and residence men,
| toned in Section of this Article, who a,
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 foI
two years next preceding his application
for registration. shall have paid and shall
produce receipts for the taxes on said prop
erty for said two years, and shall at the
time OF his application make affidavit be-
fore 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
|
plication.
If 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 if 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 ten
| shall 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 Of
this section shall have been in force Of
while the General Assembly shall have
believed or assumed the provisions 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 Amend.
ment to the Constitution shall be at the
next General Election held in this State
submitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the directions contained In
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 each
ballot shall be printed the words, For Con.
stitutional Amendment" and Against Con.
stitutional Amendment" as now provided
by law, and Immediately after said cleo.
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 Sanata