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Maryland Manual, 1904
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22 MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. I
Bribery. Sec. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, di-
rectly 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 re-
frain from casting his vote, or to prevent him in anyway
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 Representative
in Congress, or for any office of profit or trust, created by
the Constitution or Laws of this State, or by the Ordin-
ances, 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,
Penalties. on conviction in a Court of Law, in addition to the pen-
alties 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.
Punishment
for illegal
voting.
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 elec-
tion, 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.
Registration. Sec. 5. The General Assembly shall provide by law
for a uniform Registration of the names of all the voters
in this State who possess the qualifications prescribed
in tins Article, which Registration shall be conclusive
evidence to the Judges of election of the right of every
person thus registered to vote at any election thereafter
held in this State; but no person shall vote at any elec-
tion, Federal or State, hereafter to be held in this State,
or at any municipal election 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
inforce 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 inconsis-


 
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