over the arms of the United States, shall
ever be entitled to vote at any election
to be held in this State, or to hold any
office of honor, profit or trust under the
laws of this State, unless since such un-
lawful acts he shall have voluntarily
entered into the military service of the
United States, and been honorably dis-
charged therefrom, or shall be on the
day of election, actually and voluntarily
in such service, or unless he shall be
restored to his full rights of citizenship
by an act of the General Assembly passed
by a vote of two-thirds of all the mem-
bers elected to each House; and it shall
be the duty of all Officers of Registra-
tion and Judges of Election carefully to
exclude from voting, or being registered,
all persons so as above disqualified; and
the Judges of Election at the first elec-
tion held under this Constitution shall,
and at any subsequent election may,
administer to any person offering to
vote the following oath or affirmation:
I do swear or affirm that I am a citizen
of the United States, that I have never
given any aid, countenance or support
to those in armed hostility to the United
States, that I have never expressed a
desire for the triumph of said enemies
over the arms of the United States, and
that I will bear true faith and allegiance
to the United States and support the
Constitution and laws thereof as the
supreme law of the land, any law or
ordinance of any State to the contrary
notwithstanding; that I will in all re-
spects demean myself as a loyal citizen
of the United States, and I make this
oath or affirmation without any reserva-
tion or evasion, and believe it to be
binding on me; and any person declin-
ing to take such oath shall not be
allowed to vote, but the taking of such
oath shall not be deemed conclusive
evidence of the right of such person to
vote; and any person swearing or affirm-
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ing falsely shall be liable to penalties of
perjury, and it shall be the duty of the
proper officers of registration to allow
no person to be registered until he shall
have taken the oath or affirmation above
set out, and it shall be the duty of the
Judges of Election in all their returns'of
the first election held under this Consti-
tution to state in their said returns that
every person who has voted has taken
such oath or affirmation. But the pro-
visions of this section in relation to acts
against the United States shall not apply
to any person not a citizen of the United
States who shall have committed such
acts while in the service of some foreign
country at war against the United
States, and who has, since such acts,
been naturalized, or may be naturalized,
under the laws of the United States, and
the oath above set forth shall be taken
in the case of such persons in such sense.
Sec. 5. If any person shall give, or
offer to give, directly or indirectly, or
hath given or offered to give, since the
fourth day of July, eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, 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 casting his vote, or forcibly
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 Coun-
cil of Baltimore, the person giving or
offering to give, and the person receiv-
ing 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, or
who shall be guilty of or accessory to
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