Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-10-06
Pro Ola N AT 10 N !
PUBLICATION OF PROPOSED CONSTITU-
TIONAL AMENDMENTS.

ucHcIdl Assembly OI maryland, nelQ IN int
year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred anC
Ten, three acts were passed, one proposing
| an Amendment to Article of the Consti
tuition, by adding thereto Section to bt
known as Section 8; one proposing ar
Amendment to Section of Article o.
said Constitution, and one proposing ar
| Amendment to Section 4 of Article 3 Of
said Constitution, said Acts being respec
lively Chapters 253, 3O3 and 3lS of the
Acts of the General Assembly of MARYLAND
Of 1910, and which are in the words fol
| lowing, tO-wit
CHAPTER 253.
An Act to propose an Amendment tc
Article of the Constitution of this State
by adding thereto a new Section, to be
known as Section 8, to follow Section 7
and to provide for the submission of said
Amendment to the qualified voters of this
State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland (three-ffths of all
members of each of the two houses con-
curinO, that the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment 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 Article 1
to be known as Section s, to follow Sec
ton 7, of said Article.
SECTION 8. All State and municipal cleo
tons 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 a
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 wbo
may have been duly nominated as the
candidate of any political party or oreani-
cation, there shall be printed the LEGAL
name OF said party or organization: equal
representation of the minority party among
the judges and clerks of elections ree.
listers or other officers performing SINH
lar 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 qualified
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 moi
disqualified by the second or Third Sec.
tons OF this Article, possessing the quail
flcatl0ns as to age and residence mentioned
in Section of this Article.
SECOND Every other male citizen moi
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec.
tons OF this Article, possessing the quail.
flcatlons as to age and residence men.
toned in Section of this Article. who al
the time OF his application for registration
is the bona fide owner of real or persona
property, or both, in an amount of not les.
than live hundred dollars, is assessed there
for on the tax books of the City of Balti
more or OF one OF the Counties of this State
mas been such owner and so assessed fol
two years next preceding his application
Tor registration, shall have paid and shall
produce receipts for the taxes on said prop
erty for said two years, and shall at the
time OF his application make affidavit be-
fore the officers Of registration that he i,
the bona fide owner of the property so as
sessed to him and that he has been sucI
owner for two years next preceding his an
plication.
II any person other than those hereir
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters at Stat,
Elections In this State, then this section
shall be null and void and the Genera
Assembly shall possess the same power,
as II tins section had never been adopted
and the laws OF this State, including thu
local laws applicable to certain conntie,
thereof, relating to the form of ballot to h,
used at elections, in force on the first day O
July IN the year nineteen hundred and ten
shall survive or continue in force until al
tered by the General Assembly notwith
standing any Acts to the contrary which
may have been passed while the terms O
this section shall have been in force O
while the General Assembly shall bay,
believed or assumed the provisions of thi
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 tn,
next General Election held in this State
submitted to the legal and qualified voter
thereof for their adoption or rejection, i,
pursuance of the directions contained il
Article IA Of the Constitution of this State
and at said General Election the vote OF
the said proposed Amendment to the Con
stitution shall be by ballot, and upon eacl
ballot shall be printed the words. For Con
stitutional Amendment" and Against Con
stitutiOnal Amendment" as now provide,
by law, and Immediately after said cleo
ton due return shall be made to the Gov
ernor OF the vote for and against said pro
posed Amendment, as directed by sal,
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April II, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,
| Great Seal) Governor
A. P. GORMAN, JR.,
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of DELEGATES.
CHAPTER 3O3.
An Act to amend Section 2 of Article q
title, Legislative Department, of the Con
stitution OF this State and to provide fo
the submission of said Amendment TO In,
qualified voters of this State for adoptio,
or rejection.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by the Genera
Assembly Of Maryland, three fifths of al
the members of each of the two House
concurring, that the following section b,
and the same is hereby proposed as a,
Amendment to Section of Article 3. title
Legislative Department" of the Constitu
ton OF this State, and if adopted by IN,
legal and qualified voters thereof, as hereir
provided, said section shall supersede an,
stand in the place and instead of SectioI
z OF Article of the Constitution of MARY
land.
2. The City of Baltimore shall be divide,
into four Legislative Districts as near a,
may be of equal population and of contie
uous territory and each of said Leeislatiy,
Districts of Baltimore City. as they ma,
from time TO time be laid out, in accord
ance with the provisions hereof, and eacl
county of the State, shall be entitled TO on,
Senator who shall be elected by the ouali
fed voters of said Legislative Districts O
Baltimore City, and Of the counties of m,
State, respectively, and Baltimore CITY shall
be entitled TO two additional Senators. VIII,
shall be elected at large, by the ouali6e,
voters of the said City. and all of SAID
Senators shall serve for four years from
the date of their election, subject TO IN,
classification of Senators hereinafter pro
vided for.
SECTION 2. And be il further enacted b,
the authority aforesaid, that the said fore
going section hereby proposed as an Amend
ment to the Constitution. shall at the mex
election for members of the General A.