Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-03
CHAPTER 252.

An Act to propose an Amendment 10
Article / Of the Constitution Of this state
by adding thereto "A new Section, 70 De
known as Section s. to follow Section
and 10 provide for the submission OF
said Amendment to the qualified voters or
this State for adoption or rejection.
Section !. BE il enacted by the Genera!
Assembly of Maryland lthree-hfths OF
all members of each OF the two houses
concurring), that the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an
ton of this State. which said section, II
adopted by the qualified voters or this
State, shall stand as an additional section
to said Article /, TO be known as Section
8. to follow Section Z. of said Article
Section 5. All State and municipal cleo
tons shall be conducted by the. system
commonly known as the Australian Ball
lot System. and il shan be the duty Of
the General Assembly 10 provide by
throughout tile 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 nave 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-
tion of the minority party among the
judges and clerks OF election. registers or
other officers performing similar funC-
tions shall not be abolished by the Gen
eral Assembly unless by a vote of four
fifths of all the members of each house
The right to be registered as quahi
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
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
lions OF this Article, possessing the quail
ihcatiOns as to age and residence men
toned in Section ! Of this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tions of this Article possessing the quail
fications as to age and residence men
toned in Section of this Article, who at
the time of his application for registra-
personal property or both, i'm an amount
of not less than five hundred dollars. il
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 for
said two years and sEall at the time OF
his application make affidavit before the
officers of registration that he IS the
bona fide owner of the property SO as
sessed to him and that he has been sl,cn
owner for two years next preceding mis-
application.
If any person other than those herein
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
Titled to be registered as voters AZ state
Elections in this State then THIS section
shall be null and void and the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as II this section had never bcpl opted,
and the laws Of this State, including IT ?
local laws applicable TO certain counties
thereof. relating to the form OF bItt2i 20
be used at elections, in force on toe TSi
day of July i'm the year nineteen hundred
and ten shall revive or continue in 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 Q And be 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 to the legal and quail
fed voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection. i'm pursuance of the direc-
lions contained in Article IL of the Con
stitution of this State. and at saidlGen-
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 Const-
tuition.
Approved Apr Il, 1910.
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS,
(Great Seal) Governor.
A. p. GORMAN, JR.,
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.