The citizen., 1911-09-22
CHAPTER 25S.

CHAPTER 2os.
An Act TO propose an Amendment to
Article 1 Of the Constitution Of this State
by adding thereto a new Section, to be
known as Section 8. to follow Section I
and to provide for the submission Of said
Amendment to the qualified voters of this
State for adoption or rejection.
Section l. Be 1t enacted by the Gen.
eral 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 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 Ar
ticle l, to be known as Section s, to follow
Section Z. Of said Article.
Section 8 All State and municipal elec-
ttons 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 lavB for
form Of ballot, uniform throughout the
State, for use at all State elections In
this State, and provide that on said bal
lot 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 representation OF the minority party
among the judges and clerks of election
registers or other officers performing sim
liar functions shall not be abolished by the
General Assembly unless by vote of four
hfths of all the members of each house
ha trhk 70 ha
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
tions of this Article, possessing the quail
fcations as to age and residence mentioned
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
feations as to age and residence mentioned
in Section 1 of this Article, who at the 1ime
of his application for registration is the
bona fide owner of real or personal prop
erty, or both, in an amount Of not less
than five hundred dollars is assessed there
for on the tax books OF the City of Ba
timore or of one Of the Counties of this
State, has been such owner and so assessed
for two years nest preceding his aps iiCa
t,on for resistration shall have naid and
sbou nroduce reeeints for the taxes on said
nronertv for said two years ana shall at
the time Of his annlIcation make affidavit
bafore rho officers ~ repistration tbat he is
rho bona ade owner Of the nroDertv so as
sessad to him and that he has been such
oy-rar for tvo vears nexr nrecading bis
annIieation
II any nerson other than those herein
mentionaa shan no or become legally en-
ttsIed 10 he reris,ered as voters at State
Flecfions in mis- stote then This section
shou he mill and void and fba General
Assemblv shan nossass tha same movers
% ~ this sect,on had never been adonted
and tho laws NJ this State Including the
local laws annlicable 70 certain counties
tbareof relating To the form of ballot to he
nsad at elections in force on the first dav
of July in the year nineteen hundred and
ten, shall revive or continue in force until
altered 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
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