CONSTITUTION. 21

CONSTITUTION.

ALL AMENDMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN BRACKETS AND FOLLOW THE
SECTIONS AS ORIGINALLY ADOPTED.

ARTICLE I.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every white* male citizen of the United States, of the age of twen- ty-one years, or upwards, who has been a resident of the State for one year, and of the Legislative District of Balti-	Elections by ballot.
more 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 Representa- tives 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 election; but a	Qualifications of voters.
person, who shall have acquired a residence in such county or city, entitling him to vote at any such election, shall be	Residence.
entitled to vote in the election district from which he re- moved, until he shall have acquired a residence in the part of the county or city to which he has removed. Bevard v. Hoffman, 18 Md., 479. Miles v. Bradford, 22 Md., 171. Shaeffer v. Gilbert, 73 Md., 66. Southerland v. Norris, 74 Md., 326. Kemp v. Owens, 76 Md., 237. Langhammer v. Munter, 80 Md., 518. Hanna v. Young, 84 Md., 179. Howard v. Skinner, 87 Md., 55a Dav- idson v. Brice, 91 Md., 688.	Removal.
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 under guardian- ship, as a lunatic, or as a person non compos mentis, shall be entitled to vote. State v. Bixler, 62 Md., 354. The word "white" became Inoperative under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.	Disqualifica- tions.