Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-09-01

An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article Of the Constitution Of this State
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and to provide for the submission OF
| said Amendment to the qualified voters of
this State for adoption or rejection.
| Section l. Be Il enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland (three-ffths 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 Conslita-
tion Of this State. V hich said section. If
adopted by the qualified voters Of this
State. shall stand as an additional section
| 70 said Article l. to be known as Section
5. to follow Section Z, of said Article
| Section 5. All State and municipal cleo
tions shall be conducted by the system
/ lot System, and 1t 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 III
Judges and clerks OF election. registers Ur
other officers performing similar func-
/ tions shall not be abolished by the Cen
eral Assembly unless by a vote Of four
| dfths OF all the members Of each house
The right to be- registered as a quail
| fed voter and the right to vote at anv
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
ifications as to age and res dence men
toned in Section / Of this Article
Second: Every other male cit zen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tons Of this Article possessing the qlaii-
hcations as to age and residence mem
toned in Section of this Article, who al
the time OF his application for regstra-
tion Is the bona tde. owner OF real or
personal property or both. in an amount
of not less than five hundred dollars, is
assessed therefor OF the tax books of the
City of Baltimore or of one Of the o m
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
said two years, AID shall at the time of
his application make afhdaNit before the
officers of registration that he is the
bona fide owner or the property so as
owner for two years next preceding his
application. -
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters at State
Elections In this State, then this seeti "
shall be null and void and the Gene al
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as IL this section had never been adopted.
and the laws Of this State. including the
local laws applicable 10 certain counties
thereof relaiing to the form Of ballot to
he 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
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 1t further enacted. by
the authority aforesaid. that the afore-
said section hereby proposed as an
Amendment to the Constitution shall be
al the next General Election held In this
state. submitted to the legal and quail
ned voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection in pursuance OF the direc-
tions contained in Article IA of the Con-
stitution of this State. and at said Cen
erai 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-
vided by law, and Immediately after said
election due return shah be iiissdo to the
Goyerror Of the vote for and against
said proposed Amendment. as directed
by said Fourteenth Article of the Consti-
AppEoved Apr Il, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,
''ie1' l <. P. GoRMAN. JR.s
President Of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates