The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-25
Approved April s, 1912.
CHAPTER 6O2.

AN ACT to amend Section Of Article l.
title effective Franchise" OF the Constitu
ton OF this State 50 as to permit the General
Assembly to excuse the vote seller from any
penalty for selling his vote and place the
penalty for the purchase of votes upon the
vote buyer alone, and to provide for the sub
mission OF said amendment to the qualified
voters of this State for adoption rejection.
SECTION l. BE il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, Uhree-tifths of all
the members OF each OF the two houses con-
currinc), That the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed all amendment
to Section OF Article l. title Effective Fran
chse." Of the Constitution OF this State, and
il adopted by the legal and qualified voters
thereof as herein provided, said section shall
supersede and stand in the place and stead OF
Section 5 OF said Article l OF the Constitution
OF Maryland.
SEC ). If any person shall give, or offer to
give, directly indirectly, any bride, present
or reward, any promise, or any security, Tor
the payment OF delivery OF money, or any
other thing, to induce any voter to refrain
from casting his vote, or to prevent him in
any way from voting, TO procure vote
for any candidate or person proposed, or
voted for as an elector OF President and Vice
President OF the United States, or Represen-
tatve in Congress for any office OF profit
or trust, created by the Constitution or Laws
OF this State, or by the Ordinances, or au-
thority OF the Mayor and City Council of Bal
tmore, the person giving, offering to give
and the person receiving the same and any
person who gives causes to be gwen an
illegal vote, knowing il to be such, at any
election to be hereafter held in this State,
shall, on conviction in Court of Law, in addi.
ton to the penalties now hereafter to be
imposed by law, be forever disqualified to hold
any office of profit trust, to vote at any
election thereafter.
But the General Assembly may in its dis
creton remove the above penalty and all other
penalties upon the vote seller to place
the penalties for the purchase Of votes on the
vote buyer alone
SEC 3 And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall at the next election for
members OF the General Assembly of this
State to be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in the month of November,
nineteen hundred and thirteen G9l5), be sub
nitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF
the directions contained in Article ID OF the
Constitution Of tsis Stats; ssa M Ehe MDG
election the said proposed szncGfii1eES Sssss Ss
printed upon the official b&llot and the vote Oh
said proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot shall
be printed the words, For the Constitutional
Amendment" and against the Constitutional
Amendment" as now provided by law with an
| appropriate box to vote for and against the
/ ballot the new words proposed to be added tc
said Section of said Article l, namely, the
words: "But the General Assembly may ii
its discretion remove the above penalty and al
other penalties upon the vote seller so as Il
place the penalties for the purchase of vote:
upon the vote buyer alone" shall be printed or
the official bale: in italics so as to plainly
indicate to the voter the said proposed change
in the Constitution, and immediately after sale
due election due returns shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for and against sale
/ proposed amendment as directed by the sale
4 Article IA of the said Constitution.
Approved April II, 1912.