ARTICLE 1.—ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

SECTION 1. Every free white male person of twenty.one years
of age or upwards, who shall have been one year next preceding
the election a resident, of the State, and for six months a re
sident of the city of Baltimore, or of any county in which he may
offer to vote, and being at the time of the election a citizen of the
United States, shall be entitled to vote in the ward or election dis
trict in which he resides, in all elections hereafter to be held, and
at all such elections the vote shall be taken by ballot. And in
case any county or city shall be so divided as to form portions of
different electoral districts for the election of Congressmen, Sena-
tor, delegate or other officer or 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 electoral dis
trict 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. rfhat if any person shall give, or offer to give directly
or indirectly, any bribe, present or reward, or any promise, or any
security for the payment 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 way from voting, or to obtain or piocure a
vote for any candidate or person proposed or voted for, as elector
of President and Vice President of the United States, or Etepre
sentative 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 oroffering togive,and the person receiving the same,
and any person who gives or causes to be given an illegal vote,
knowing it to be so, at any election to be hereafter held in this
State, shall on conviction in a court of law, in addition to the pen
alties now or hereafter to be imposed by law, be forever disquali
fled to hold any office of profit or trust, or to vote at any election
thereafter.