Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-09-19

CHAPTER 6o7.

AN ACT to amend Section ) of Article ],
title effective Franchise" Of the Constitu
ton Of this State, so as to permit the General
Assembly to excuse the vote seller from any
penalty for selling his vots and place the
penalty for the purchase Of votes upen the
vste buyer alone, and to provide for the sub
mission of said amendment to the qualified
voters of this State for adoption or rejection.
srcrfoN /. Be II enacted By the General
Assembly Of hsrylsnd. 0hreehfths Of all
the members Of each Of the tive houses con-
currins). That the following section be and
the same i, hereby proposed as an amendment
TO Section of Article I, title elective Fran
chise." Of the Constitution Of this State, and
II 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.
SIC. g. II any person shall give, offer to
give directly or 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
from casting his vote, or to prevent him in
any way from voting. to procure a vote
for any candidate or person proposed, or
voted for as an elector Of President and Vice
President of the United States, or Rspresen-
tative in Congress or for any once of profit
or trust, created BY the Constitution or Laws
of this State, or by the Ordinances, or au-
.hority of the Mayor and City Council of Bal
al. rs-, nixy
and the person receiving the same, and any
person who gives or causes to be given, an
Illegal vote, knowing it to be such, at any
election TO be hereafter held in this State,
shall, on conviction in Court Of Law, in addi-
ton 10 the penalties now or hereafter to be
imposed by law, be forever disqualified to hold
any 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 vote seller as to place
the penalties for the purchase of votes on the
vote buyer alone.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed 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 frs, Monday in the month Of November.
nineteen hundred and thirteen Qel5l, be sub
nit,sd to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or 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 shail be
printed upon the official ballot and ths vote on
said proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot. and upon each ballot shall
be printed the words, "Por the Constitutional
Amendment" and Against the Constitutional
Amendment" as now provided by law with an
appropriate box to vote for and against the
same as the voter shall select And upon said
ballot the new words proposed 70 be added 70
said Section 3 Of aid Article I. namely. the
words: But the General Assembly may In
rs discretion remsvs the abovs penalty and all
ether penalties upon the vote seller 20 a. to
place the penalties for the purchase Of votea
upon the vote buyer slone." sham Be printed on
the ofheisl ballot in Italics % a. to 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
csverner Of the vet, for and against said
proposed ansndmen. a dirested By the said
Article IL Of the said constsutsn
Approved April II, Isi1
cKAPTHR 90.