Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-10-27

oy aodif'g thereto a new oeSslOn. TO Dc
known as Section s. to follow Section I
and to provide for the submission OF
this State for adoption or rejection.
Section l. Be It enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-fifths Of
concurring), that the following section be
and the same Is hereby proposed as an
amendment to Article l of the Constitu-
fion 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
5. to follow Section Z. of said Article.
Section 3. All State and municipal cleo
tons shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Bal
lot System. and 1t shall be the duty OF
the General assembly to provide by
throughout the State, for use at all State
elections In this State. and provide that
on said ballot after the name OF each
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-
tion OF the minority party among the
Judges and clerks of election, registers OF
other officers performing similar func-
tons shall not be abolished by the Cen
fifths of all the members of each house
The right to be registered as a quail
ded voter and the right to vote at any
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 i 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 registra-
A.. a. -
personal property, or both, In an amount
OF not less than five hundred dollars. is
assessed therefor on the tax books of tho
City Of Baltimore or OF one OF the coun.
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
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding mis-
II anv 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 sectioa
shall be null and void and the General
rs II this section had never been adopted.
and the laws OF this State. including the
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereof. relating 10 the form VI Ddtlot "
he used at elections, In force on the first
day or 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
he terms OF this section shall have been
in force or while the General Assembly
shall have believed or assumed the pro-
Section 3. And be 1t further enacted. BY
the authority aforesaid, that the afore-
said section hereby proposed as an
~ he next General Election held In this
state submitted to the legal and quail
ned voters thereof for their adoption or
refaction- in pursuance OF the direc-
tions contained in Article IA of the Con-
stlf,,tion or this State, and at said Cen
aral Election the vote on the said pro-
noeed Amendment to the Constitution
shail be BY ballot. and upon each bal
lof shaiI 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 10 the
Governor of the vote for and against
aid proposed Amendment. as directed
by said Fourteenth Article Of the consti-
Approved Apr. II. 1910.
AUSTIN L. cRorHERs.
Vie@' "a A. P. GoRMAN. JR..
President OF She Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker Of the House Of Delegated