[Art. I, Sec. 4] MARYLAND MANUAL 371
ise, 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 the 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 addi-
tion 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 As-
sembly 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.1
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
pass Laws to punish, with fine and imprisonment, any per-
son, 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 pur-
pose of voting 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 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, at any election, Federal or
State, hereafter to be held in this State, or at any municipal
election in the City of Baltimore, unless his name appears
in the list of registered voters; and until the General As-
sembly shall hereafter pass an Act for the Registration of
the names of voters, the Law in force on the first day of
1 Thus amended by Chapter 602, Acts of 1912, ratified November 4, 1913.
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