Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-09-26
CHAPTER 500.
Approved April 8. 1914.

AN ACT TO amend Section of Article /,
title effective Franchise" Of the Constitu
ton Of this State so as to permit the General
penalty for selling his vsts 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 or rejection
sEcrIoN l. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, (threehfths Of all
the members Of each Of the tive houses con
curing, That the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amendment
10 Section Of Article /. title effective Fran
chise," 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 ) of said Article Of the Constitution
Of Maryland.
SEc. J. II any person shall give, or offer to
give. directly OF indirectly, any bride, present
or reward or any promise, or any security, for
the payment or delivery Of money, any
other thing, to induce any voter TO refrain
any way from voting, or 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-
tative in Congress or 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
timore, the person giving, offering to give
and the person receiving the same, and any
person who gives or causes TO be given, an
illegal vote, knowing it 10 be such, at any
election to be hereafter held in this State,
shall. on conviction in Court of Law, in add
ton to the penalties now or hereafter TO be
imposed by law, be forever disqualified to hold
sny Office of profit or trust, or to vote at any
election thereafter.
But the General Assembly may in its dis
erection remove the above penalty and all other
penalties upon the vete seller so as to place
the penalties for the purchase of votes on the
vote buyer alone
SEC. e. 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
Stat. TO be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in the month Of November
nineteen hundred and thirteen (1olD, be sub
nit,ed to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption rejection, in pursuance Of
tie directions contained in Article IA Of the
Constitution Of this State; and at the said
election the said proposed amendment, shall be
printed upon the official ballot and the vote on
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 70 vote for and against thu
same as the voter shall select And upon said
ballot the new words proposed to be added to
said Section Of ssid Article /, namely the
words: "Bus the General Assembly may in
is discretion remove the above penalty and all
other penalties upon the vote seller 50 as to
place the penalties for the purchase Of votes
upon the vese buyer alone" shah be printed on
the efieisi ballot In italics se a. 70 plainly
indicate to the voter the said proposed change
In the Constitution. and Immediately after said
due election due returns shall be made to the
Governor Of the vote fer and against said
proposed amendment as directed By the said
Article IA Of the said csnstitusisn-
Approved April Is. isia
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