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MARYLAND MANUAL 679
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE (INSTITUTION
OF MARYLAND
Acts of 1969 to be submitted to the voters for ratification
or rejection at the General Election to be held in November
1970.
It should be noted the Court of Appeals ruled in June
1969 that the Proposed Amendments approved by the Gen-
eral Assembly at the 1969 Regular Session could not be
submitted to the voters until the General Election of 1970,
even though Chapter 76, Acts of 1969 had proposed a gen-
eral election to be held on November 4, 1969 to adopt or
reject the proposed amendments.
CHAPTER 784
(House Bill 13)
AN ACT to propose an amendment to the Constitution of
Maryland, to amend Section I of Article I, title "Elective
Franchise," to amend the Constitution of Maryland to
change the period of residence required of residents of
the State to vote, to provide that for purposes of voting
for President and Vice-President of the United States or
for electors for those offices, the General Assembly may
prescribe by law a lesser residence requirement for citi-
zens who have resided in this State for less than six
months and to provide for the submission of this amend-
ment to the legally qualified voters of the State for their
adoption or rejection.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, (three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two houses concurring), That the following be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to Section I
of Article I, title "Elective Franchise," of the Constitution
of Maryland, the same, if adopted by the legally qualified
voters of the State, as herein provided, to become a part of
the Constitution of Maryland:
ARTICLE I
Sec. 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every citizen
of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, or
upwards, who has been a resident of the State for six
months, and of the Legislative District of Baltimore city,
or of the county, in which he may offer to vote, as of the
time for the closing of registration next preceding the elec-

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