The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-09-01
CHAPTER @S.


An Ast to propose an Amendment 10
Article Of the Constitution of this State
BY adding thereto a new Section. to be
known - Section 8. to follow Section 7
and TO provide for the submission Of said
Amendment to the qualified voters Of this
State for adoption OF rejection.
Section l. Be It enacted By the Gem
eral Assembly Of Maryland (thrss- nfths
Of an members of each Of the two houses
eonenrNng). that the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed a. an
amendment to Article 1 Of the Constitution
OF this State, which said section, II adopted
By the qualified voters Of this State, shall
stand a. an additional section to said Ar
ticle l. to be known as Section 8, to follow
Section =, of said Article
Section 8. All State and municipal elec-
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 laYo for
o 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 nominatsd
as the candidate of any political party or
organisation, there shall be printed the
legal name Of sah party or organization;
equal representation of the minority party
among the judges and clerks of election
registers or other officers performing sam
ilar functions shall not be abolished by the
Genera! Asse@biy gnlsss by A Y2ye Of four
hfths Of all the meinbefs 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 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
hcations 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
tons Of this Article possessing the quail
fcations as to age and residence mentioned
In Section l of this Article. who AT the time
Of his application for registration is the
bona fide 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
for two years next preceding mis- applica-
ton for registration, shall have paid and
shall produce receipts for the ta1es 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 fde owner OF the property so as
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding his
application.
II any person other than those herein
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be registered 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 10 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 notwth-
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 10 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 Nhe Con-
stitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot shall be printed the words, For
Constitutional Amendment" and Against
Constitutional Amendment" ~ now pro-
vidsd By law, and Immediately after said
election dus 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. IL. 1910
AUSTIN L. cRoIHERs,
(Great Seal) Governor
A. z. GORMAN, Jr.
President Of the Senate
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speeches. sf the House Of Delegates