The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-10-13
CHAPTER 253.


An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article l OF the Constitution OF this State
by adding thereto a new Section, to be
known as Section S, to follow Section 4
and to provide for the submission OF said
State for adoption or rejection?
Section l. Be It enacted by the Gener.
al Assembly Of Maryland three- Of
all 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 Constitu.
adopted by the qualified voters OF this
State, shall stand as an additional Sec
ton to said Article !. to be known as
Section 8, to follow Section Z, OF said
Section g. All State and municipal cleo
lions shall be conducted BY the system
commonly known as the Australian Ballot
System, and it shall be the duty OF the
General Assembly to provide by law for
form of ballot, uniform throughout the
State, for use at all State elections in
lot after the name of each candidate
thereon who may have been duly nominal
ed as The candidate Of any any political party ty
legal name of said party or organization
equal representation Of the minority party
among the judges and clerks OF election
lar function shall not be abolished By the
General Assembly unless by vote Of
four-fifths of all the members Of each
house.
The right to be registered as a quail
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
tons Of this Article. possessing the quail
fications as to age and residence mention
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
lions of this Article possessing the quail
a. - Aafd 4nYa-
ed In Section / OF this Article who at
the time Of his application for registra-
ton is the bona fde, owner of real or
personal O. both u
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 Of
fcers of registration that he is the bona
fide owner Of the property SO assessed to
him and that he has been such owner
ton.
II any person other than those herein
titled to be registered as voters mt State
Elections in this State. then this section
shall be null and void and the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
and the laws OF this State. including the
local laws applicable 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
withstanding 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 9 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 T.. CROTHERS.
Great SeaD Governor.
President OF the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.