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CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every*
male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one
years, or upwards, who has been a resident of the State for
one year, and of the Legislative District of Baltimore city,
or of the county, in which he may offer to vote, for six
months next preceding the election, shall be entitled to
vote in the ward or election district in which he resides, at
all elections hereafter to be held in this State; and in case
any county or city shall be so divided as to form portions
of different electoral districts, for the election of Represen-
tatives in Congress, Senators, Delegates, or other 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 district, in which
he offers to vote, for six months next preceding the elec-
tion; but a person, who shall have acquired a residence in
such county or city, entitling him to vote at any such elec-
tion, 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 above the age of twenty-one years,
convicted of larceny or other infamous crime, unless
pardoned by the Governor, shall ever thereafter be entitled
to vote at any election in this State; and no person under
guardianship, as a lunatic, or as a person non compos mentis,
shall be entitled to vote.

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 the delivery of money, or
any other thing, to induce any voter to refrain from casting
his vote, or to prevent him in any way from voting, or to
procure a vote for any candidate or persons proposed, or

*The word white ''expunged. "