Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-10-27
Pro { la N At TO n !
PUBLICATION OF PROPOSED CONSTITU-
TIONAL AMENDMENTS.

WHEREAS, At the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland. held in the
year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ten, three acts were passed. one proposing
an Amendment to Article of the Consti-
tuition, by adding thereto Section to be
known as Section 8: one proposing an
Amendment to Section of Article Of
said Constitution, and one proposing an
Amendment to Section of Article Of
said Constitution, said Acts being respec-
lively Chapters 253, 300 and 318 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
Of 1910. and which are in the words fol-
lowing. to-wit:
CHAPTER 253.
An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article Of the Constitution of this State
by adding thereto new Section, to be
known as Section 8, 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 it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three -fifths of all
members of each of the two houses con-
curring), that the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Article | Of the Constitution of this
State, which said section, if adopted by the
qualified voters Of this State, shall stand
as an additional section to said Article /,
to be known as Section 8, to follow Sec
ton 7, of said Article.
SECTION s. All State and municipal cleo
tons 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 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 organi-
cation, there shall be printed the legal
name of said party or organization; equal
representation of the minority party among
the judges and clerks of elections, reg
listers or other officers performing SINH
lar functions 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 qualified
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
locations as to age and residence mentioned
in Section of this Article
SECOND: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tons 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 registration
the hOnl kdn IF rooI ar
property. or both, in an amount Of not less
than five hundred dollars, is assessed there
for on the tax books of the City of Balti-
more or of one of the Counties of this State,
has been such owner and so assessed for
two years next preceding his application
for registration, shall have paid and shall
produce receipts for the taxes on said prop
erty for said two years, and shall at the
time OF his application make affidavit be-
fore the officers OF registration that he is
the bona fide owner of the property so as
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding his ap-
plication.
If any person other than those herein
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters at State
Elections in this State, then this section
shall be null and void and the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as If this section had never been adopted,
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 survive or continue in force until al
tered by the General Assembly notwith-
standing 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 voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance Of the directions contained in
Article IA OF the Constitution of this State,
and at said General Election the vote on
the said proposed Amendment to the Con-
stitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot shall be printed the words, For Con-
stitutional Amendment" and Against Con-
stitutional Amendment" as now provided
by law. and Immediately after said cleo
tiOn due return shall be made to the Gov
ernOr Of the vote for and against said pro-
posed Amendment, as directed BY said
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April II, 1910.
AUSTIN l. CROTHERC