Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-02
CHAPTER %.

An Act to propose an Amendment TO
Article / of the Constitution of this state
by adding thereto a new Seeti9 o.. 10 DC
and TO provide for the submission OF
said Amendment To the qualified voters or
this State for adoption or relecuon-
Section l. BE il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland three-niths OF
all members OF each Of the Two houses
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment TO Article / of the Constltu-
ton of this State. which said section. II
adopted by the qualified voters OF TINS
State, shah stand as an additional section
to said Article l, to be known as section
g. to follow Section Z, or said Article.
Section s. All State and municipal cleo
tions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Bal.
lot System. and IT shall be the duty OF
the General Assembly to provide 10y
law for form OF ballot, uniform
elections in this state, and provide that
on said ballot after the name OF each
candidate thereon VINO may nave peen
duly nominated as the candidate OF any
political party or organization, there
shall be printed the legal name of said
party or organization; equal representa-
judges and clerks of election, registers or
other officers performing similar rune
tions shall not be abolished by the Cen
eral Assembly unless by vote OF four
ffths OF all the members of each house;
The right to be registered as a quaIl-
fled 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
ihcations as TO age and residence men
toned in Section i of this Article. ~
Second: Every other male citizen not
DISQUALIFIED by the Second or Third Sec
lions of this Article possessing the quail
fcations as TO age ana residence men
toned i'm Section / of this Article, who at
the time of his application for registra-
ton is the bona tide owner of real or
both. /
of not less than five hundred dollars. is
assessed therefor on the tax books Of the
City of Baltimore or of one of the Coun-
ties of this State has been such owner
and so assessed for two years next pre-
ceding his application for registration.
shall have paid and shall produca re
ceipts for the taxes on said property Tor
said two years, and sfall at the time OF
his application make affidavit before 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 for two years next preceding his
application.
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 IL this section had never been adopted.
and the laws of this state. including u +.
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereo! relating TO the form of b lllot u
be used at elections. in force on the rst
day of July in the year nineteen hundred
ten.
until altered by the General Assembly
Notwithstanding any Acts to the con
trary 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 pro
visions of this section to be valid.
Section q And be ii further enacted, by
the authority aforesaid, that the afore-
said section hereby proposed as an
Amendment to the Constitution shall be
at the next General Election held in this
State. submitted to the legal and quail
fled voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection, In pursuance of the direc-
tions contained i'm Article IA of the Con
stitution of this State, and at said Cen
eral Election the vote on the said pro
posed Amendment to the Constitution
Shall be by ballot and upon each bal
lot shall be printed the words. For
constitutional Amendment and Against
Constitutional Amendment" as now pro-
yided 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 Consti-
tuition.
Approved Apr. II, 1910.
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS,
(Great SeaI) Governor.
A. Z. GORMAN, JR.,
President OF the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES.
Speaker of the House OF Delegates.