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operative in any electioneering canvass, in relation to any election
about to be held under the laws or constitution of this State, or
of the ordinances or authority of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore; such person so receiving, using or expending and
each and every of his agents therein, upon conviction in a court
of law shall be fined and imprisoned as the Legislature may from
time to time direct; and be forever thereafter incapable of voting
at any future election of ally nature or kind in this State, or in the
city of Baltimore, or of holding any office or appointment under
either.

Determined in the negative.

Mr. Dorsey, moved to amend said report by inserting after the
word "office," in the 2nd section, 9th line, the following

Or appointment under the laws or constitution of this State, or
the ordinances or authority of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, or to vote thereafter at any election therein, and the
person to whom such bribe, present, reward, promise or security
may have been offered or given, shall be a competent witness to
prove the offence, and may be compelled to testify as such, and if
so testifying should he have received the same, he shall be exempt
from all punishment thenefor; and the person by whom such bribe,
present, reward, promise or security may have been proffered or
given, shall be a competent witness, and may as such be compell
ed to testify, and if so testifying, he shall be exempt from all pro
secution or punishment for the offence by him committed; provided
always, that such exemption from prosecution and pu nishmnent shall
only be extended to that party who shall first appear before the grand

jury to testify against the otiter party; and that neither panty shall
be compelled to give testimony unless protected from punishment
by the exemption liereinbefore provided.

Which was read.

Mr. Chambers, of Kent, moved for a division of the question
tiron the first branch of said amendment, being in these words,
"or appointment under the laws or constitution of this State, or
the ordinances or authority of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, or to vote thereafter at any election therein;"
Determined in the negative.

The question was then put on the second branch of said
amendment, and
Determined in the negative
Mr. Dorsey, then moved to amend said report by adding at the
end thereof as an additional section the following
It shall be the duty of the General Assembly of Maryland to
pass laws punishing with imprisonment as well as a fine, any per-
sort who shall remove into any election district of Howard District
or Anne Arundel county, or into any ward in the city of Balti
more, not for the purpose of acquiring a bona fide residence there
in, but for the purpose of voting therein at an approaching elec