The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-08-04
CHAPTER 253.

An Act to propose an Amendment TO
Article 1 Of the Constitution of this State
by adding thereto ii new Section. to be
known as Section s. to follow Section
and to provide for the submission of said
Amendment to the qualified voters of this
State for adoption rejection.
Section /. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland (three- ffths
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 1 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 /, to be known rs Section s, to follow
Section Z Of said Article.
Section s. All State and municipal cleo
tions 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
q form of 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
thereon who may have been duly nominated
as the candidate of any political party or
organization, there shall he printed the
legal name of said party 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 vote of four
fifths of all the members of each house.
The right to be registered as quail
fed voter and the right to vote at any
State or municipal election in this State
shall he limited to the following persons: {:
First: Every male white citizen not
disqualified hy the Second or Third Sec
tions of this Article possessing the quail
fications as to age and residence mentioned
in Section 1 OF this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tions of this Article possessing the quail
tiCationS as to age and residence mentioned
in Section / nf this Article. who ut the time
of his application for registration is the
bona tide owner Of real or personal prop
erty, or both, i'll 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 affidavit
before the officers of registration that he is
the bona tide 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 regis, cred 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 revive or continue in force until
altered 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 or
while the General Assembly shall have
believed or assumed the provisions of this
section to be valid.
Section - And he 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 he by ballot, and upon each
ballot shall he printed the words, For
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
Constitutional Amendment" now pro-
yided by law. and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for aud against said
proposed Amendment. as directed by said
Fourteenth Article of the COnStit tution.
Approved Apr II. 1910.
AUSTIN l.. CRO1fIERS,
(ureat SeaD Governor
A. L. GORMAN. Jr..
President of the Senate
ADAM PEBBLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates