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The order was then adopted.
The hour having arrived for taking up the ordeu of the
day,
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the or-
der of the day, being the Report of the Committee to con-
sider and report upon the Declaration of Rights.
The question recurring upon the majority and minority
reports submitted by the Committee as amendments to
the 36th Article.
Pending which, (by unanimous consent,)
Mr. Wickes, Chairman of the Committee upon the Elec-
tive Franchise, submitted the following
REPORT:
SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot, and every white
male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one
years or upwards, who has been a resident of the State for
one year, and of the legislative district of Baltimore city, or
of the county in which he may offer to vote, for six months
next preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote, in the
ward or election district in which he resides, at all elections
hereafter to be held in this State; and in case any county or
city shall be so divided as to form portions of different elec-
toral districts, for the election of Representatives in Congress,
Senator, Delegate, or other officer or officers, then to entitle
a person to vote for such officer, he must have been a resident
of that part of the county or city which shall form a part of
the electoral district in which he offers to vote for six months
next preceding the election; but a person who shall have
acquired a residence in such county or city entitling him to
vote at any such election, shall be entitled to vote in the elec-
tion district. from which he removed, until he shall have
acquired a residence in the part of the county or city to which
he has removed.
Sec. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years, con-
victed of larceny or other infamous crime, unless pardoned by
the Governor, shall ever thereafter be entitled to vote at any
election in this State; and no person, under guardianship as
a lunatic, or as a person non compos mentis, or found to be a
lunatic or non compos mentis by the verdict of a jury, shall be
entitled to vote.
Sec. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly
or indirectly, or hath given or offered to give, since the fourth
day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, any
bribe, present or reward, or any promise, or any security for
the payment or delivery of money, or any other thing, to
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