Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-09-30
CHAPTER 25a.

An Act To pronose an Amendment TO
Article ] OF the Constitution OF this state
known as section = to follow Section Z
and TO provide for the SUBMISSION OF
said Amendment 10 the qualihed voters OF
this State for adoption or rejection.
Section l. Re il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland Ohree-hfths OF
an members OF each of the two houses
concurrIng). that the following section be
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 this
State, shah stand as an additional section
TO said Article l. TO be known as Section
s. to follow Section :. of said Article.
Section s. All State and municipal cleo
tons shall be conducted by the system
commonly knswn as the Australian Bal
lot System. and ii 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 i'm this State, and provide that
on said ballot after the name of each
candidate thereon who may nave oeen
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 func-
lions shall not be abolished by the Cen
eral Assembly unless by vote of four
fifths of all the members of each house:
The right to be registered as a quali'
fled voter and the right 10 vote at any
State or municipal election I'm 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
itications as TO age and residence men
toned in Section l of this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the > comd or Third Sec
lions of this Article possessing the quail
fcations as to age and residence mem
toned in Section ! of this Article, who at
the time of his application for reg Stra-
ton is the bona Tide owner of real or
oil
of not less than i've hundred dollars, IS
assessed therefor on the tax books OF the
City of Baltimore or of one of Lhe 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 snail produce re
ceiptS for the taxes on said property Tor
said two years, and shan at thr time or
his application make atfdaVit before the
officers of registration that he is the
bona fde owner of the property 80 as
sessed to him and that he has been suci'
owner for two years next preceding ms
II any person other than those herein
mentioned shall he or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters Ut state
Elections i'm 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 opted.
and the laws of this state, including ~ p
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereof relating to the form OF ballot &"
be used at elections, in force on the !rsL
day of July in the year nineteen hu7drad
and ten shall revive or continue $50 force
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 2. And he 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 20 the legal and quail
fled voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection. in pursuance of the direc-
tions contained in Article II 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 Seal) Governor.
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House. of Delegates.