Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-09-15
CHAPTER 80.

An Act 10 propose an Amendment 10
Article of the Constitution OF this state
by adding thereto a new Secti3in. 70 o.
and TO provide for the submission or
said Amendment to the qualified voters OF
this State for adoption or rejection.
Section / BE IL enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-hfths OF
all members of each of the two houses
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment TO Article of the Consutu-
tion OF this state. which said section II
adopted by the qualihed. voters or thts
State, shah stand an additional section
TO said Article l. to be known as Section
s. to follow Section Z. OF said Article.
Section g. All state and municipal cleo
lions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian BAT
lot System, and IL 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 who may have been
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-
ton of the minority party among the
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
The right to be registered as quah'
fed voter and the right to vote at :, am! any
shall be limited TO the following persons:
First: Every male white citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Ihlrd sec
lions of this Article possessing the quail
ifcations as TO age and residence men
toned in Section / of this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
tions of this Article possessing the quail
fications as to age and residence mem
toned in Section of this ALucle-X.ho at
the time OF his apnl3iration for registra-
ton Is -t1e-~tSSna fdc owner OF real or
.,pefsonal 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 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 produce re-
ceipts for the taxes on said property Tor
said two years, and shall at the time or
his application make affidavit before the
officers of registration that he is the
bona fide owner of the property so as
owner for two years next preceding ms
application. -, ,t,
mentioned shall be or become Legally en-
titled to be registered as voters al state
Elections in this State. then TINS section
shall be null and void ana the tenera
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as IL this section had never been adopted,
and the laws Of this State, including tn
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereof. relating to the form OF b1ilot %
be used at elections, in force on The fsI
dav of July in the year nineteen hundred
and ten shall revive or continue I'm force
until altered by the General Assembly
notwithsta nding 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 be II further enacted, Dy
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
fed voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection. I'm pursuance of the direc-
tions contained i'm Article Il 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 Constl-
Approved Apr II, 1910.
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS,
A. =. GoRMAN, JR.,
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES.
Speaker of the House of Delegates.