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City Council of Baltimore, the person giving or offering
to give, and the person receiving the same, and any per-
son who gives, or causes to be given, an illegal vote, know-
ing it to be such, at any election hereafter to be held in
this State, shall, on conviction in a court of law, in addi-
tion to the penalties now or hereafter to be imposed by
law, be forever disqualified to hold any office of profit or
trust, or to vote at any election thereafter.
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 acquiring 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 General 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 article, which registration shall be conclusive evi-
dence 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 munici-
pal, hereafter to be held in this State, unless his name ap-
pears in the list of registered voters; and until the Gen-
eral Assembly shall hereafter pass an act for the regis-
tration of the names of voters, the law in force on the
first day of June, in the year 1867, in reference thereto,
shall be continued in force, except so far as it may be
inconsistent with the provisions of this constitution, and
if 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 qualifica-
tions prescribed in the first section of this article, and
who are not disqualified under the provisions of the sec-
ond and third sections thereof.
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