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CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 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 yeas, 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 electoral districts, for the
election of Representatives in Congress, Senators, Dele-
gates, or other 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 elec-
toral 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
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 twenty-one years,
convicted of larceny, or other infamous crime, unless par-
doned 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, shall be entitled to vote.
SEC. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, di-
rectly or indirectly, any bribe, present or reward, or any
promise, or any security for the payment or the delivery
of money, or any other thing, to induce any voter to re-
frain from casting his vote, or 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
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