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 shall have
resided in the State one year next pre-
ceding the election, and six months in
any county, or in any legislative district
of Baltimore city, and who shall comply
with the provisions of this Article of the
Constitution, shall be entitled to vote,
at all elections hereafter 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 Congressmen, Senator, Dele-
gate, or other officer or officers, then to
entitle a person to vote for such officer or
officers, 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. The General Assembly shall
provide by law for a uniform registra-
tion of the names of voters in this State,
which registration shall be evidence of
the qualification of said voters to vote at
any election thereafter held, but no per-
son shall be excluded from voting at
any election on account of not being
registered until the General Assembly
shall have passed an act of registration,
and the same shall have been carried
into effect, after which no person shall
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vote unless his name appears on the
register. The General Assembly shall
also provide by law for taking the votes
of soldiers in the army of the United
States serving in the field.
Sec. 3. No person above the age of
twenty-one years, convicted of larceny
or other infamous crime, unless par-
doned by the Governor, shall ever there-
after be entitled to vote at any election
in this State, and no lunatic, or person
non compos mentis, shall be entitled to
vote.
Sec. 4. No person who has at any
time been in armed hostility to the
United States, or the lawful authorities
thereof, or who has been in any manner
in the service of the so-called "Confed-
erate States of America," and no person
who has voluntarily left this State and
gone within the military lines of the-
so-called "Confederate States or armies"
with the purpose of adhering to said
States or armies, and no person who has
given any aid, comfort, countenance or
support to those engaged in armed hos-
tility to the United States, or in any
manner adhered to the enemies of the
United States, either by contributing to
the enemies of the United States, or
unlawfully sending within the lines of
such enemies money or goods, or letters,
or information, or who has disloyally
held communication with the enemies
of the United States, or who has advised
any person to enter the service of the
said enemies, or aided any person so to
enter, or who has by any open deed or
word declared his adhesion to the cause
of the enemies of the United States, or
his desire for the triumph of said enemies
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