Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-11
CHAPTER 6Os
Approved April 8. 1914.

AN ACT to amend Section Of Article 1,
title elective Franchise" Of the Constltu-
ton Of this State 80 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 or rejection.
SECTION l. BE Il enacted BY the General
Assembly Of Maryland, (thrss-hfths Of all
the members o. each Of the tive houses con
currins), That the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amendment
to Section Of Article !, title Elective Fran
chise" Of the Constitution 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 Of said Article / Of the Constitution
Of Maryland.
SIC. ) If any person shall give. or offer to
give. directly or indirectly, any bride, 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 a vote
for any candidate or person proposed, or
voted for as an elector Of President and Vice
President of the United States, or Represen-
taiive 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, or Offering to give
and the person receiving the same. ard 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 to the penalties now OF 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 it's dis
erection remove the above penalty and al other
penalties upon the vote seller 50 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 IS 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 Q9l9, be sub
nittsd TO the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection. in pursuance Of
tie directions contained in Article - 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 or
said proposed amendment 10 the Constitution
shall be By ballot. and upon each ballot shall
be printed the words, aFor the Constitutional
Amendment" and Against the Constitutional
Amendments" as now provided By law with an
appropriate box to vote for and against ths
same as the voter shall select And upon said
ballot the new words proposed 70 Be added =
said Section Of said Article 1, namely, the
words: "But the General Assembly may IN
its discretion remevs the above penalty and al
other penalties upon the vote seller 20 az to
place the penalties for the purchase Of votes
upon the vote buyer alone" shah be printed on
the of5cisl bsllo, IN Italics 50 as 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
Governor Of the vote fer and against said
proposed amendment a. directed By the said
Article "a Of the said Constitution.
Approved April II. 1914