CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 1.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

SECTION i. 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 Representatives in Con-
gress, 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 election; but a person, who shall
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 above the age of twenty-one years, con-
victed 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 underguardianship,
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
voted for, as Elector of President and Vice-President of the

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