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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 voted for as elector of Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United States, or Representa-
tive 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 or offering to give, and the person receiv-
ing the same, and any person who gives or causes to be given
an illegal vote knowing it to be such at any election to be
hereafter held in this State, or who shall be guilty of, or ac-
cessary to any fraud, force, surprise, or bribery to procure
himself or any other person to be nominated to any office,
national, State or municipal, 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. 6. 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 dis-
trict, 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. 7. Every person elected or appointed to any office of
trust or profit under this Constitution, or under the laws made
pursuant thereto, before he shall enter upon the duties of such
office, shall take and subscribe the following oath, or affirma-
tion: J ———— do swear, (or affirm, as the case may be, ) that
I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, diligently and
faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, execute the office
of——————— according to the Constitution and Laws of this
State, and that since the fourth day of July, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-one, I have not in any manner violated
the provisions of the present, or of the late Constitution, in
relation to the bribery of voters, or preventing legal votes, or
procuring illegal votes to be given, (and if a Governor, Sena-
tor, Member of the House of Delegates, or Judge, ) that I will
not directly or indirectly receive the profits or any part of the
profits of any other office during the term of my acting as
————; I do further swear or affirm that I will bear true alle-

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