Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-09-15

An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article of the Constitution Of this State
by adding thereto new Section TO b
known as Section 5, to follow Section
and to provide for the submission of
said Amendment to the qualified voters Of
this State for adoption or rejection.
Section l. BE 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland lthree-fifths Of
all members Of each OF the two houses
eoncurring). that the following section be
and the same Is hereby proposed as an
amendment to Article of the Constltu-
tion of this State. vhich said section, II
adopted by the qualified voters of this
State. shalt stand as an additional section
to said Article /. to be known as Section
5, to follow Section T. of said Article.
Section y All state and municipal elec-
tions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Bal
lot System, and It shall be the duty of
the General Assembly to provids 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
tion of the minority party among the
judges and clerks Of election. registers or
other officers performing similar fune-
tions shall not be abolished by the Gem
eral Assembly unless by vote of four
tifths OF all the members of each house.
The right to be registered as a quail
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
tions of this Article, possessing the quail
ifcations as to age and res dence men
toned in Section l of this Article.
Second; Every other male cit zen not
disqualified by the Second or Taird Sec
tons OF this Article Possessing the quail
ficati0ns as to age and residence men
toned in Section of this Article. who at
fxf de.
tion is the bona fide owner of real or
personal property, or both. in an amount
of not less than five hundred dollars is
assessed therefor on the tax books Of the
ties of this State, has been such owner
and so assessed for two years next pre-
shall have paid and shall produce re-
ceipts for the taxes on sad property for
said two years, and shall at the time OF
hts application make affidavit before the
officers of registration that he is the
bona tide owner of the property so as
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding his
III any person other than those herein
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled 10 be registered as voters at state
Elections in this State. then this section
shan be null and void and the Gene gi
Assembly shall possess the same power $
as if this section had never been adopted,
and she laws Of this State, including the
local laws applicable to certain coI1ties
thereof relating to the form Of ballot to
be used at elections, in force on the lrst
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 befn-
IN force or while the General Assembly
shall have believed or assumed the pro-
vfsions Of this section to be valid.
Section q And be it further enacted. by
tbe authority aforesaid. that the dfore-
said section hereby proposed as an
Amendment to the Constitution shall be
af tbe next General Election held In this
state. submitted TO the legal and quail
fifd voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection in pursuance of the direc-
items contained in Article IA of the Con-
stitntson OF this State, and at said Gen
oral Election the vote on the said pro-
poged Amendment to the Constitution
shall he 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 made TO the
Governor OF the vote for and against
said proposed Amendment, as directed
by said Fourteenth Article of the Consti-
Approved Apr. Il. 1910.
AUSTIN L. CRoTHERs,
'eie4' "a. 4. P. GoRMAN. JR.,
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates