Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-05
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An Act to propose an Amendment 20
Article ! OF tae Constitution Of TINS state
by adding thereto g new Secllo.G % o
known as Section 5. TO follow section
and to PROV de for the submission or
said Amendment to the qualified voters OF
this State for adoption or rejection.
Section l. BE il enacted by the General
Assembly of MARYLAND tthree-ntths or
all members of each OF the two houses
concurring), that the following section De
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment to Article l of the COnstitu-
tion of this State, which said section, II
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 Section Z. OF said Article
Section s. All state and municipal cleo
tons shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Bal
lot System. and il shall be the duty Of
the General ASSEMBLY TO provide by
law for form of ballot uniform
throughout the State. for use az all State
elections I'm 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 the
Judges and clerks of election registers or
other officers performing similar func-
lions shall not be abolished by the Cen
eral Assembly unless by a vote OF four
fifths of all the members of each house;
The right to be registered as Quah-
fed voter and the right 10 vote at any
State or municipal election In TINS 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
ifications as 10 age and res dancC 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 Tor registfa-
. D snF .aHnl n
personal property, or both. in an amount
of not less than five hundred dollars. is
assessed therefor on the tax books OF the
City of Baltimore or of one of the Loun-
ties Of this State has been such owner
and so assessed for two years next pre-
ceding his application for registration,
sbaiI have D5{d and SHAH uroduce re-
ceipts for the taxes on said property Tor
said two years, and 81 all at the time or
his application make affidavit be ore 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 MS
IL any person other than those herein
mentioned shah be or become legally n
titled to be registered as voters az state
Elections In this State. then thls section
shall be null and void and the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as If this section had never been q opted
and the laws of this State. including IN
local laws applicable to certain counties
Thereof relating to the form OF ballot GO
be used at elections. in force on the rs
day of July u. the year nineteen huH cred
and ten shah revive or continue IN force
until altered by the General Assembly
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. any Acts TO tie con
trarV 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 2 And be it 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 in pursuance of the direc-
lions contain1d in Article II of the Con
stitution of this State. and at said Cen
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-
vided 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 Consti-
tuition.
Approved Apr II, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,
Great Seal.) Governor.
A. p. GORMAN, JR.,
President of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker OF the House of Delegates.