ARTICLE 1.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every
white1 male2 citizen of the United States, of the age of twen-
ty-one years, or upwards, who has been a resident of the
State for one year, and of the Legislative District of Bal-
timore 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 elections hereafter to be held in this State; and in
case any county, or city, shall be so divided as to form por-
tions of different electoral districts, for the election of Rep-
resentatives in Congress, Senators, Delegates or other Of-
ficers, 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 resi-
dence in the part of the county, or city, to which he has
removed.

3SECTION 1A. The General Assembly of Maryland shall
have power to provide by suitable enactment for voting by
qualified voters of the State of Maryland who are absent
and engaged 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 man-
ner in which and the time and place at which such absent
voters may vote, and for the canvass and return of their
votes.

SEC. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years,
convicted of larceny, or other infamous crime, unless par-
doned by the Governor, shall ever thereafter be entitled to
vote at any election in this State; and no person under
guardianship, as a lunatic, or, as a person non compos men-
tis, shall be entitled to vote.

SEC. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, direct-
ly or indirectly, any bribe present or reward, or any prom-

1 The word "white" is ineffective under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.

2 The word "male" became inoperative under the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States,
3Thus added by Chapter 20, Acts of 1918, ratified November 5, 1919.