The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-08-04
CHAPTER. 25s


An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article Of the Constitution of this State
by adding thereto new Section, to be
known as Section s. to follow Section I
and to provide for the submission of said
Amendment to the qualified voters Of this
State for adoption or rejection.
Section /. Be 1t enacted by the Gem
eral Assembly Of Maryland (three- fiftha
Of all members Of each Of the two houses
concurring), that the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment 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 Ar
ticle 1, to be known as Section g. to follow
Section Z, of said Article
Section s. AL State and municipal elec1
lions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Ballod
system, and IT shall be the duty Of the
General Assembly to provide by law for
form Of ballot uniform throughout the
State, for use at all State elections in
this State, and provide that on said bali
lot after the name Of each candidate
thereon who may have been duly nominated
as the candidate of any political party or
legal name Of said party or organization
equal representation Of the minority party
among the judges and clerks Of election
registers or other officers performing Sim
liar functions shall not be abolished By the
General Assembly unless by a vote Of four
hfths Of all the members Of each house.
The right to be registered as a quali-
fed voter and the right to vote at any
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shall be limited to the following persons
First: Every male white citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tions 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
tions Of this Article possessing the quali-
heations as to age and residence mentioned
in Section ! Of this Article, who at the time
of his application for registration is the
bona fde owner of real or personal prop-
erty, or both, In an amount of not less
than five hundred dollars, Is assessed there
for on the tax books of the City of Bal
timore or Of one Of the Counties of this
State. has been such owner and so assessed
for two years next preceding his applica-
ton for registration. shall have paid and
shall produce receipts for the taxes on said
property for said two years, and shall at
the time Of his application make affdavis
before the officers of registration that he 10
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
application.
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
ehall 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 revive or continue in force until
! altered by the General Assembly notwith-
Nstanding 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 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 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 on
the said proposed Amendment to the Con-
stitution shall be by ballot. and upon each
ballot 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 to the
Governor of the vote for and against said
proposed Amendment as directed by said
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved Apr. ii, 1910
AUSTIN L. CROIHERS,
(Great seal). Governor.
A. P. GORMAN, Jr.,
President Of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.