Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-11-03

An Act to propose an Amendment to
Article OF the Constitution Of this State
known IS Section 5, to follow Section 7
and to provide for the submission Of
said Amendment TO the qualified voters Of
/ this State for adoption or rejection.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
| Assembly of Maryland (three-hfths 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 l OF the Constitu-
| ton of this State, which said section. II
adopted by the qualified voters Of this
| State, shah stand as an additional section
to said Article l. to be known as Section
;. to follow Section Z. of said Article.
Section 5. All State and municipal cleo
\ tons 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 provide by
throughout the State. for use at ali 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 the
/ Judges and clerks of election, registers or
other officers performing similar func-
tons shall not be abolished by the Gen
l eral Assembly unless by a vote OF four
hfths 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
toned in Section ! of this Article.
Second: Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
\ lions Of this Article possessing the quail
fcations as to age and residence men
/ toned in Section of this Article, who at
the time of his application for reglstra-
ton is the bona tide. owner of real or
| Of not less than five hundred dollars. is
assessed therefor on the tax books of the
City OF Baltimore or of one OF the Coun-
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 for
said two years. and shall at the time Of
his application make affidavit before the
officers Of registration that he is the
bona fde owner OF the property 50 as
owner for two years next preceding his
II any person other than those herein
mentioned shah be or become legally en-
titled to be registered as voters at State
Elections in this State. then this section
shan be null and void and the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
a. II mis- section had never been adopted.
and the laws OF this State, including the
IocaI laws applicable to certain counties
thereof relating to the form of ballot to
BE- used at elections, in force on the first
dav OF July In the year nineteen hundred
and ten, shall revive or continue In force
untfl 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 9 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 quaii-
fed voters thereof for their adoption or
| rejection. In pursuance Of the direc-
lions contained in Article Il of the Con
| stitutlon OF this State. and at said Gem
eraI Election the vote on the said pro
poscd Amendment to the Constitution
shaH 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
| Govsrror OF the vote for and against
said proposed Amendment, as directed
by said Fourteenth Article OF the consti-
tuition.
AUSTIN L. cRoTHERs.
s'sA' SEA- 4. P. GoRMAN. JRs 49,
President OF the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES.
Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.