Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-09-12
CHAPTER 600

AN ACT to amend Section of Article
l, title Elective Franchise" of the Con-
stitution of this State, so 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 submission of said amendment to
the qualified voters of this State for adop-
ton or rejection.
Section |. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three- fifths of all
the members of each of the two houses
cOncurring), That the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an
amendment to Section of Article /,
title Elective Franchise" of the COnsti-
tuition of this State, and if adopted by the
legal and qualified voters thereof as herein
provided, said section shall supersede and
stand in the place and stead of Section 3
of said Article Of the Constitution of
Maryland
Sec. 3. If any person shall give, or offer
to give. directly or indirectly, any bribe,
present or reward, or any promise. or any
security. for the payment or 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, or to
procure vote for any candidate or person
proposed, or voted for as an electOr of Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United States
or Representative in Congress or for any
Office of profit or trust, created by the Con-
stitutiOn or Laws of this State, or by the
Ordinances. or authority of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, the person Civ
ing, or offering to give and the person re-
ceiving the same, and any person who gives
or causes to be given. an illegal vote, know
ing it to be such, at any election to be here
after held in this State, shall, on conviction
in Court of Law. in addition to the penal
ties now or hereaftertO 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
cretiOn remove the above penalty and all
other penalties upon the vote seller so 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 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 No
vember, nineteen hundred and thirteen
Q913), be submitted to the legal and quail
fled voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection, in pursuance of the directions con-
tanned 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 pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot shall be
printed the words, For the Constitutional
Amendment" and Against the Constitu-
tional Amendment" as now provided by
law with an appropriate box to vote for and
against the same as the voter shall elect.
And upon said ballot the new words pro-
posed to be added to said Section 3 of said
Article l, namely, the words: but the
General Assembly may in its discretion re-
move the above penalty and all other penal
ties upon the vote seller so as to place the
penalties for the purchase of votes upon
the vote buyer Alone" shall be printed on
the official ballot in italics so as to plainly
indicate to the voter the said proposed
change in the Constitution. and immediate
ly after said due election due returns shall
be made to the Governor of the vote for
and against said proposed amendment as
directed by the said Article IA of the said
Constitution.
Approved April II. 1912.