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induce any voter to refrain from casting hie vote, or forcibly
to prevent him in any way from voting, or to procure a vote
for any candidate or person proposed or voted for as Elector
of President and Vice-President of the United States, or
Representative in.Congress, or for any office of profit or trust
created by the Constitution or laws of this State, or by the
ordinances or authority of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, the person giving, or offering to give, and the per-
son 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 addition to the penalties
now to be imposed by law, be forever disqualified to hold
any office of profit or trust, or to vote at any election there-
after.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
pass laws to punish, with fine and imprisonment, any person
who shall remove into any election district or precinct of any
ward of the city of Baltimore, not for the purpose of acquir-
ing a bona fide residence therein, but for the purpose of voting
at an approaching election, or who shall vote in any election
district or ward in which he does not reside, (except in the case
provided for in this Article,) or shall, at the same election,
vote in more than one election district or precinct, or shall
Vote, or offer to vote, in any name not his own, or in place of
any other person of the same name, or shall vote in any
county in which he does not reside.
Sec. 5. The Geperal Assembly shall provide by law for a
uniform registration of the names of all the voters in this
State, who possess the qualifications prescribed in this Arti-
cle, which registration shall be conclusive evidence of the
right of every person thus registered to vote at any election,
thereafter held in this State, but no person shall vote, at any
election, federal, State or municipal, hereafter to be held in
this State, unless his name appears in the list of registered
voters; and until the General Assembly shall hereafter pass
an Act for the registration of the names of voters, the law
in force, on the first day of June, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-seven, in reference thereto, shall be continued
in force, except so far as it may be inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Constitution and the registry of voters made
in pursuance thereof, may be corrected as provided in said
law; but the names of all persons shall be added to the list
of qualified voters by the officers of registration, who have the
qualifications prescribed in the first section of this Article,
and who are not disqualified under the provisions of the second
and third sections therof.
Sec. 6. Every person elected or appointed to any office of
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