of Congressmen, senator, 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 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 residence in the
part of the county or city to which he has
removed.
Sec. 2. No person who has at any time
been in armed rebellion against the govern-
ment of the United States or the lawful au-
thorities 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 there-
of, 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
voted for as elector of President 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 receiving the same, and any person
who gives or causes to be given an illegal
rote knowing it to be such at any election to
be hereafter held in this State, shall on con-
viction 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 on
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. 5. Every person elected or ap-
pointed to any office of trust or profit under
the constitution or laws made pursuant
thereto, before be shall enter upon the duties
of such office shall take and subscribe the
following oath or affirmation; I — do
swear (or affirm, as the case may he, ) that I
will support the constitution of the United
States, and that I will be faithful and bear
true allegiance to the United States and to
the State of Maryland, and support the con-
stitution and laws thereof, and that I will,
to the best of my skill and judgment, dili-
gently and faithfully, without partiality or
prejudice, execute the office of—accord-
ing to the constitution and laws of this State,
and that since the adoption of the present
constitution, I have not in any manner violated
the provisions thereof in relation to
bribery of voters or preventing legal or procuring
illegal votes to begiven; (and if a
governor, senator, 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 time
of my acting as —. I do further swear
that I will support the constitution of the
United States, and will be faithful and bear
true allegiance to the United States and the
government thereof, and to the State of Mary-
land, any law or ordinance of any State to
the contrary notwithstanding, and that I
have never, either directly or indirectly, by
word, act or deed, given any aid, comfort or
encouragement to those in rebellion against
the government of the United States or the
lawful authorities thereof; and all this '.
swear voluntarily, without any, the least
mental equivocation, reservation or qualifica-
tion whatsoever, so help me God. And i
any person elected or appointed to office as
aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to take the
said oath or affirmation, be shall be consid-
ered as having refused to accept the said
office, and a new election or appointment
shall be made as in case of refusal or resigna-
tion, and any person swearing or affirming
falsely in the premises shall, on conviction
thereof in a court of law incur the penalties
for wilful and corrupt perjury, and be there
after incapable of voting at any election, and
also incapable of holding any office of profit
or trust in this State.
Sec. 6. That no person above the age
of twenty-one years, convicted of larceny
or other infamous crime, unless be shall be
pardoned by the executive, shall ever there-
after beentitled to vote at any election in
this State, and no person under guardian
I ship as a lunatic,' or a person non compos
mentis, aball be entitled to vote.
GEORGE W. SANDS,
DAVID SOOTT,
THOMAS RUSSELL,
JONAS ECKER. |
