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MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. I.

Bribery.

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 cast-
ing his vote, or to prevent him in any way 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 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

Penalties.

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.

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 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 purpose
of voting at an approaching election, or who shall vote in
any election district or ward in which he does not reside (ex-
cept in the case provided for in this Article), or shall, at the
same election, vote in more than one election district, or pre-
cinct, 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 this
Article, which Registration shall be conclusive evidence to
the Judges 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 incon-
sistent with the provisions of this Constitution; and the
registry of voters, made in pursuance thereof, may be cor-
rected, as provided in said law; but the names of all per-