32 MARYLAND MANUAL.
United States, 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 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 vote,
knowing it to be such, at any election 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 per-
son 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 pur-
pose 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 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. 5. The General Assembly shall provide by law for a
uniform Registration of the names of all voters in this State
who possess the qualifications prescribed in this Article,
which Registration shall be conclusive evidence to the
Judge of election of the right of every person thus regis-
tered to vote at any election thereafter held in this State;
but no person shall vote at any election, Federal or State,
hereafter to be held in this State, or at any municipal elec-
tion in the City of Baltimore, unless his name appears in
the list of registered voters; and until the General Assembly
shall hereafter pass an Act for the Registration of the
names of voters, the law in force on the first day of June,
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in reference
thereto, shall be continued in force except so far as it may
be inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution;:
and the registry of voters, made in pursuance thereof, may
be corrected, as provided in said law; but the names of all
persons shall be added to the list of qualified voters by the
officers of Registration, who have the qualifications pre-
scribed in the first section of this Article, and who are not
disqualified under the provisions of the second and third
sections thereof.
SEC. 6. Every person elected or appointed to any office of
profit or trust, under this Constitution, or under the laws,
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