Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-03
Approved April 8, 1919,
CHAPTER 6o7.

AN ACT 10 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 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 10 the qualified
voters of this State for adoption or rejection.
SEcrroS /. Be II enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, (three-hfths Of all
the members Of each Of the tive houses con
curring), That the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amendment
to Section ) of Article /, title effective 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
of Maryland.
SIC g. If 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
any way from voting. or TO procure a vote
for any candidate or person proposed,
voted for as an elector of President and Vice
President of the United States, or Represen-
tative 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
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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 a Court Of Law, in add.
ton to the penalties now or hereafter to be
imposed BY law, be forever disqualified to hold
any Office Of profit 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 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 November,
nineteen hundred and thirteen Qol3), be sub
rnitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance Of
tire 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
lie 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
same as the voter shall select And upon said
ballot the new words proposed to Be added to
said Section 5 Of said Article /, namely, the
words: "But tho General Assembly may IN
It's discretion Femovs the above penalty and all
ether penalties upon TIE vote seller 80 a. to
place the penalties for the purchase Of vosea
upon the vote buyer alone" shah be printed on
the official ballot in italics 80 a. to pisinI,
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 for and againa said
proposed anendmen, a. directed By the said
Article II Of the said censtisutisn.
Approved April II. 1914
CHAPTER ga.