The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-29
CHAPTER 25s.

CHAPTER 258.
An Act 70 propose an Amendment to
Article / Of the Constitution Of this State
by adding thereto new Section, to be
known as Section 8. 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 l. Be 1t enacted by the Gem
4eral Assembly Of Maryland (three-A fths
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. IL adopted
BY the qualified voters Of this State, shall
stand a. an additional section to said Arr
ticle 1, to be known as Section s, to follow
Section Z Of said Article.
Section g. AL State and municipal elecJ
lions shall be conducted by the system
commonly known as the Australian Ballod
System, and it shall be the duty Of the
General Assembly to provide by law for
form Of ballot, uniform throughout the
State, for use at ais State elections in
this State. and provide that on said BAD
lot after the name Of each candidate
thereon who may have been duly nominated
as the candidate Of any political party Or
organisation, there shall be printed the
legal name Of said party or organisation;
equal representation Of the minority party
among the judges and clerks Of election
registers or other officers performing sins
Alar functions shall not be abolished by the
General Assembly unless by vote Of four-
ffths Of all the members Of each house,
The right to be registered AZ 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 while citizen NOT
disqualified by the Second or Third Sec
tions Of this Article. possessing the Quali-
hcations 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.
ications as to age and residence mentioned
In Section l Of this Article, who at the time
Of his application for registration il tic
bona fde owner Of real or personal props
erty, or both, In an amount of not less
than Eve hundred dollars, IL assessed there
for on the tax books OF the City OF. Bal
timOre or of one of the Counties Of this
State, has been such owner and so assessed
for two years next preceding his applica-
ton for registration, shall have paid and
shall produce receipts 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 ID
the bona fde owner Of the property SO as
sessed to him and that he has been such
owner for two years next preceding his
application,
II any 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 section
shall be null and void ana the General
Assembly shall possess the same powers
as II this section had never been adopted,
and the laws Of this State. including the
local laws applicable to certain counties
thereof, relating to the form OF ballot to be
used at elections in force on the first day
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
while the General Assembly shall have
believed or assumed the provisions Of this
section to be valid
Section q And be it further enacted,
BY the authority aforesaid, that the afore-
said section hereby proposed as an Amend
ment to the Constitution shall be at the
next General Election held in this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance Of the directions contained in
Article IA Of the Constitution Of this State,
and at said General Election the vote On
the said proposed Amendment to the Con-
stitution shail be by ballot, and upon each
ballot shall be printed the words, "Eor
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 Constitution.
Approved Apr IL. 1910.
AUSTIN L. CRoIHERs,
(Great seaD Governor.
A. P. GoRMAE. Jr..
President Of the Senate.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House Of Delegates.