CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 1.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every
white* 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 elec-
tions 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 ac-
quired a residence in such county or city, entitling him to
vote at any such election, shall be entitled to vote in the elec-
tion district from which he removed, until he shall have ac-
quired a residence in the part of the county or city to which
he has removed.

Bevard. vs. Hoffman, 18 Md., 479. Miles vs. Bradford, 22 Md., 171.
Shaeffer vs. Gilbert, 73 Md., 66. Southerland vs. Norris, 74 Md., 326.
Kemp vs. Owens, 76 Md., 237. Langhammer vs. Munter, 80 Md., 518.
Hanna vs. Young, 84 Md., 179. Howard vs. Skinner, 87 Md., 558. David-
son vs. Brice, 91 Md., 688.

**SECTION 1A. The General Assembly of Maryland shall
have power to provide suitable enactment for voting by quali-
fied voters of the State of Maryland who are absent and en- '
gaged in the military or naval service of the United States
at the time of any election from the ward or election district
in which they are entitled to vote, and for the manner in which
and the time and place at which such absent voters may vote,
and for the canvass and return of their votes.

The word "white" became inoperative under the 15th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.

**Thus amended by Oh. 20, Acts of 1918, ratified by the people November 5,
1918.