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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 not 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 resi-
dence in the part of the county or city to which he has re-
moved.

Sec. 2, No person who has at any time been in armed re-
hellion against the Government of the United States or the
lawful authorities thereof, or who has been in any way or
manner in the service of the so called "Confederate States of
America, " shall ever thereafter be entitled to vote at any
election to be held in this State, or to hold any office of honor,
profit or trust under the laws thereof, unless such person has
been pardoned by the President of the United States, and has
fully complied with the requisitions of said pardon.

Sec. 3. 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 procure a vote for any candidate or person proposed or vo-
ted for as elector of President and Vies President of the Uni-
ted Slates, 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 City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, the person giving or offering to give, and the
person receiving the same, and any person who gives or causes
to be given an illegal vote knowing it to be such at any elec-
tion to be hereafter held in this State, shall on conviction in
a Court of Law, in addition 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 the first article of the Constitution) or
shall at the same election vote in more than one election dis-
trict 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.