Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-09-22

An Act to propose an Amendment 10
Article Of the Constitution OF this State
BY adding thereto new Section. to b.
and to provide for the submission Of
said Amendment to the qualified voters Of
this State for adoption or rejection
Section l. BE II enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland tthree-ffths 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 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
5. to follow Section Z. Of said Article.
Section 5. All State and municipal elec-
tions 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
elections in this state, and provide fhal
on said ballot after the name Of each
candidate thereon who may have been
duly nominated as the candidate Of any
snail be printed the lesalsname OF said
party or organization, equal representa-
tion Of the minority partysamong the
judges and clerks of election. registers or
other officers performing similar func-
tons shall not be abolished by the Gen
erai 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 70 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
iiications as 70 age and residence men
Second; Every other male citizen not
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tons of this Article possessing the quail
hcations as to age and residence men
toned in Section of this Article. who I
the time OF his application for registra
ton is the bona fide owner CT 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
City of Baltimore or of one Of the Coln-
ties of this State, has BEEN such owner
and so assessed for two years next pre-
cedlng his application for registration.
shall have paid and shall produce re-
ceipts for the taxes on said property II
said two years, AID shall at the time Of
his application make affidavit be ore the
officers of registration that he is the
bona fidc owner of the property so as
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding his
application.
mentioned shall be or become legally en-
titled "a be registered as voters at State
Elections in this State. then this seciiaa
shall be null and void and the Gene at
Assembly shall possess tie same powers $
as II this section had never been adopted,
and the laws OF this State, including the
iorat laws anplfcable to certain counties
thereof relating to the form of ballot to
he used at elections, in force on the first
dav of Julv in the year nineteen hundred
and ten shall revive or continue in force
until altered by the General Assembly
notwfthstanding any Acts to the con-
frary which may have been passed while
fhe 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 O. And be It further enacted. by
tho authority aforesaid, that the a1ore-
said section hereby proposed as an
Amendment to the Constitution shall be
~ the newt General Election held in this
state submitted TO the legal and quali-
fed voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection. In pursuance OF the direc-
lions contained in Article II OF the Con-
stitution OF this State, and at said Gen
erai Election the vote on the said pro-
noeed Amendment to the Constitution
shau be by ballot and upon each bal
lot shall he printed the words. For
constitutional Amendment and Against
Constitutional Amendment, as now pro-
,rided nv law and Immediately after said
eiection 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-
Approved Apr. Il. 1910.
AUSTIN L. cROTHERS.
fGreat Seal.1 Governor.
President of the Senate.
ADAM HEEPLES,
Speaker OF the House OF Delegates.