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ART. I—ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
Section 1. All elections shall be by ballot, and every
white male citizen of the United States, of the age of
twenty-one years and 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 di-
vided as to form portions of different electoral districts
for the election of Representatives in Congress, Senator,
Delegate or other officer or officers, then, to entitle a per-
son 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 en-
titling him to vote at any such election, shall be entitled
to vote in the election 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 21 years, convicted
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 guardian-
ship as a lunatic or as a person non compos mentis, or
found to be a lunatic or non compos mentis by the ver-
dict of a jury, shall be entitled to vote.
Sec. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, direct-
ly or indirectly, or hath given or offered to give, since the
fourth day of July, in the year 1851, any bribe, present
or reward, or any promise, or any security for the pay-
ment or delivery of money or any other thing, to induce
any voter to refrain from casting his vote, or forcibly to
prevent him in any manner 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
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