Section 1. Every free white male per-
son, of twenty-one years of age or up-
wards, who shall have been one year
next preceding the election a resident of
the State, and for six months a resident
of the city of Baltimore, or of any county
in which he may offer to vote, and being
at the time of the election a citizen of
the United States, shall be entitled to
vote in the ward or election district in
which he resides, in all elections here-
after to be held; and at all such elections
the vote shall be taken by ballot. And
in case any county or city shall be so
divided as to form portions of different
electoral districts for the election of Con-
gressmen, Senator, delegate, or other
officer or 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. That 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 delivery of money or any other thing,
to induce any voter to refrain from cast-
ing his vote, or forcibly to prevent him
in any way from voting, or to obtain or
procure a vote for any candidate or per-
son proposed or voted for, as elector of
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President and Vice President of the
United States, or Representative in Con-
gress, or for any office of profit or trust
created by the Constitution or laws of
this State, or by the ordinances or au-
thority of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, the person giving or offer-
ing to give, and the person receiving the
same, and any person who gives or
causes to be given an illegal vote, know-
ing it to be so, at any election to be here-
after held in this State, shall, on con-
viction in a court of law, in addition to
the penalties now or hereafter to be im-
posed by law, be forever disqualified to
hold any office of profit or trust, or to
vote at any election thereafter.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the
General Assembly of Maryland to pass
laws to punish with fine and imprison-
ment any person who shall remove into
any election district or ward of the city
of Baltimore, not for the purpose of ac-
quiring a bona fide residence therein,
but for the purpose of voting therein at
an approaching election, or who shall
vote in any election district or ward in
which he does not reside, (except in the
case provided for in the first article of
the Constitution,) or shall, at the same
election, vote in more than one election
district or ward, 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.
Sec. 4. Every person elected or ap-
pointed to any office of profit or trust
under the Constitution or laws made
pursuant thereto, before he shall enter
upon the duties of such office shall take
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