474 MARYLAND MANUAL
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 delivery of money, or
any other thing, to induce any voter to refrain from casting 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 an
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 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.
But the General Assembly may, in its discretion, remove
the above penalty and all other penalties upon the vote seller
so as to place the penalties for the purchase of votes on the vote
buyer alone.*
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
pass Laws to punish, with fine and imprisonment, any person
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 dis-
trict or ward in which he does not reside (except in the case
provided for in this Article), or shall, at the same election, vote
in more than one election district, or precinct, 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. 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 registered to vote
at any election thereafter held in this State; but no person
shall vote in any election. Federal, or State, hereafter to be held
in this State, or at any municipal election in the city of Balti-
more, unless his name appears in the list of registered voters;
and until the Genera] 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,
* Thus amended by Chapter 602, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people November 4, 1913.
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