Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-08-04
cHAPTFR25s.

Attlflr 4 " tue CONSTITUTION OF lnis
State by adding thereto q new Section,
to be known as Section 8, to follow
ection AID TO provide for the sub
miss lou OF said Amendment 10 the
qualified voters of this State fot udop-
ton or rel elton.
SECTION ]. Be 1t enacted by the
Gene al Assembly OF MARY land three
fiiths of all m.nbers Of each Of the two
houses coucurringJ. tina the following
section be and the same is hereby
Jropo-e ed as an amendm.t't 10 Article l
Of the Constitution of this state, which
said section, II adopted by the quail fed
voteis OF the safe, shall stand as an
additional section to said Article 1, to
be known as Section s, TO follow Sec
tion z, Of said Article.
SECTION. s, All State and municipal
elections shall be conducted by The
system COMMONLY known as the Austria
Ian Ballot System, and it shall be the
duty OF the General ASS mby TO pro-
vide by law for a form Of ballet, uni
form throughout the STATE, for use at
all state tlecti' Us IN this State, and
provide bat n said ballot after the
naHr zach candi a thereon who
may have .. en- duly terminated as III
candidat" II any political prs OF
organiy2tioH. there shall be pint d lh-
legal naD e Of sad party or org MIA
ion; equal representation II liz
minority patty among The judges auc
clerks Of election, regi~ti r. or l.e
officers performing similar flfrt n
shall lot be abolished bs the &c rta
Assembly uni s. by vote Of fom-ii ihs
of all the M m eis I each house.
The right 10 registered as quail
Ted vOler and tie right 70 vote nj any
STATE or municipal election in this
State shall be limited 10 the following
persons:
FIRST: Every male white ei lzen
disqualified BY the Second or Thi
Sections OF this Article, possessing to-,
qualifications as to age and fesid.rce
mentioned In Section of this Article
SECOND Every other nale citizen nai
disqualified by the Second or Third
Sections Of this Article possessing the
qualifications as to age and resid, nee
IN ntiUned In Section / OF this Article
who at the time of his application ior
registration is the bona fide owner Of
real or personal property. or both. il
IN amount Of not less thai, five hundreC
dollars, is ASST sed therefor on the ia !
books OF the City Of Baltimore or o.
on Of the Couuties OF this state, has
| been such owner and so ass sss q fol
two wears next preceding his appliea
tion for registration, shall have phi
and shall produce receipts for the take.
on said property fos said two years ant
shall at the time OF his application
Ike affidavit before the officers o
reg istratf, n that Re is g bona fidt
owner Of the property so assessed L
him and that he has been such Owner
for two yeats n'xt pr, ceding his appli
cation
II any person other than those herein
mentioned hail be or become Legally
entitled to be egist red as voters a
State Electors in this State, then thil
section shall be null and void and tn,
General Assembly shall possess thu
same powers as if this section hac
never been adopted. and the laws o.
this STATE, including the local laws ap.
pliabie to Ct rtaiD counties thereof
relating to the form OF bal I to be used
at = ee,lons, in force on the first day
" Jul "a Nhk , AAitAt Gu Auuuuftt
and ten, shall revive or continue ID
force until altered by the General
Assembly Notwithstanding any Acts to
the contrary which NAV have been
passed while the terms of this section
shall have b en- IN force or while The
General Assembly shall have believed
assumed the provisions Of this section
to be valid.
SECTION , Ard be il further enacted.
by the authority aforesaid, that the
aforesaid section hereby prop ,sed as
an Amendment 10 the Constitution shall
be at the next 6, neral Election held In
this Stale. submitted to the legal aud
qualified voters thereof for their adop-
ton or rejection, in pursuance of the
direct o. cont ined in Article IL OF
the Constitution OF this State, and al
said General FL ctiun the vote on the
said proposed Amendment to the Con-
stitution shall be by ballot, and upon
each ballot shall be printed the words.
For Constitutional Amer dmentr and
against Constitutional Amendment, -
as now provided by law, and immediate
~ after sad election due return shall
be made TO the Governor Of the vote foI
and against said proposed Amendment,
as directed by said Fourteenth Article
OF the Constitution.
Approved Apr. IL, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,
iGreat Seal Governor.
A. P. GORMAN, in.
President OF the Senate.
ADAM PEBBLES.
Speaker OF the House of Delegates.