Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-10-13

An Act to propose an Amendment 10
Article OF the Constitution Of this state
by addirg thereto q new Section 60 b.
known as Section s. to follow Section z
and to provide for the submission OF
said Amendment 10 the qualified voters OF
this State for adoption or releetion.
Section ]. BE il enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland (three-ffths OF
all members Of each Of the TWO houses
concurring). that the following section De
and the same Is hereby proposed as Al
tlon OF this State. which sazd section. II
adopted by the qualified voters OF thts
State, shall stand as an additional section
g. e follow Section 7. cf said Article.
Section 3. All State and municipal cleo
tons 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 by
law for 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 OF organization there
snail be printed the legal name of said
party or Organization. equal representa-
tion Of the minority party among the
Judges and clerks Of election, registers or
other officers performing similar func-
tions shall not be abolished by the Cen
eral Assembly unless by a vote OF four
f1fths Of all the members Of each house.
The right to be registered as a quail
fed voter and the right to vote at ans
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
iilcations as to age and res dence men
toned In Section ] of this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tions of this Article possessing the quail
fcations as to age and residence mem
1lnnQd Sprftnn j Article I
the time Of his application for registra-
ton is the bona hde owner of real or
personal property. or both, in an amount
OF not less than five hundred dollars, is
assessed therefor on the tax books OF the
City Of Baltimore or of one Of the toun-
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 produce re-
ceipts for the taxes on said properly f-r
said two years, and shall at the time Of
officers OF registration that he IS the
bona fide owner OF the. property SO as
sessed 10 him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding MS
n 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 Gene y
Assembly shall possess the same poweis
as If this section had never been adopted.
and the laws Of this State, including the
local laws applicable to certain eonhtles
thereof. relating to the form OF ballot 70
be used at elections, in force on the iirst
day of July in the year nineteen hundred
and ten. shall revive or continue In force
unffl altered by the General Assembly
nofwithstandlng any Acts to the con-
frarv which may have been passed while
me terms Of this section shall have been
IN force or while the General Assembly
shail have believed or assumed the pro
visions or this section to be valid
section g. And be II further enacted, py
the authority aforesaid, that the afore-
said section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall be
at the next General Election ned ~ tnis
state submitted to the legal and quall-
,ied voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection. in pursuance Of the dtrec-
tions contained IN Article II of the Con-
stitution Of this State, and at said Cen
eral Election the vote on the said pro
nosed Amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each PAL
lot shall be printed the. words; FOR
constitutional Amendment and Against
Constitutional Amendment, as now pro-
vided bv 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
bv said Fourteenth Article Of the Consti-
Approved Apr. II, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS.
eereA' esA'' a. P. GoHMAN. JR.,
President Of the Senate.
ADAM fEEPLES.
Speaker OF the House Of Delegates