The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-11-03
CHAPTER 253.

An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article Of the Constitution Of this State
by adding thereto new Section, 70 pc
known as Section s, to follow Section 2
and to provide for the submission Of said
Amendment TO the qualified voters OF this
State fer adoption or rejection.
al Assembly of Maryland (three- ffths OF
all members Of each Of the two houses
coneurring), that the following section be
ana 5he seR Is Artee u liz constitu
ton Of this State. which said section, IL
adopted BY the qualified voters Of this
ton to said Article J.. to be known as
Section 8. to follow Section 2. OF said
Section g. All State and municipal cleo
tions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Ballot
System, and VI shall be the duty OF the
form ~ ballot, uniform throughout the
State, for use at all State elections In
this State. and provide. that on said bal
thereon who may have been duly nominal
ed as the candidate or any political party
Or organization, there shall Be- printed the
legal name OF said party or frgfH
among the judges and clerks Of election
registers or other officers performing sim
t Gepera het Assembly unless ~ vote q
four-ffths Of all the members Of each
house.
The right 10 pc registered as u qual-
fed 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 not
lions Of this Article possessing the quail
ncations as to age and residence mention
ed in Section ! Of this Article.
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tons OF this Article possessing the quail
fications as to age and residence mention
fra NJ WI nj Tyhn of
the time OF his application for registra-
ton ia the bona fde owner Of real or
personal property. or both: in an amount
assessed therefor on the tax books Of the
City of Baltimore or OF one OF the
Counties Of this State has been such
preceding his application for registration,
shall have paid and shall produce receipts
for the taxes on said property for said
application make affidavit before the or
flcers Of registration that he is the bona
ide owner OF the property so assessed to
for two years next preceding his applica-
ton.
! mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters at State
Elections in this State. then this section
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and the laws Of this State, including the
local laws appllcaDle TO certain counties
thereof. relating to the form of ballot to
be used at elections. in force on the first
day of July in the year nineteen hundred
and ten, shall revive or continue in force
until altered by the General Assembly not
outstanding any Acts to the contrary
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 provisions
OF this 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 the
next General Election held in this State.
submitted to the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection,
in pursuance OF the directions contained
in Article Il of the Constitution of this
State, and at said General Election the
vote on the said proposed Amendmnt to
the Constitution shall be by ballot. and
upon each ballot shall be printed the
words, For Constitutional Amendment"
and Against Constitutional Amendment"
as now provided by law. and immediate
ly after said election due return shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed Amendment, as d.
rected by said Fourteenth Article OF the
Constitution.
Approved Apr IL, 1910
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS.
$500 "A. r. GoRMAN, Jr.,
President Of the Senate
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker Of the House of Delegates