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SEC. 4. The General Assembly by law may regulate
or prohibit the right to vote of a person convicted of
infamous or other serious crime or under care or guardian-
ship for mental disability.

SEC. 5.¹⁸ 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 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. 6.¹⁹ 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 the elector of President, and Vice
President of the United States, or Representative in Con-
gress 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 convic-
tion 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. 7.²⁰ The General Assembly shall pass Laws
necessary for the preservation of the purity of Elections.

SEC. 8." The General Assembly, shall make
provisions for all cases of contested elections of any of the
officers, not herein provided for.

SEC. 9. Every person elected, or appointed, to any
office of profit or trust, under this Constitution, or under
the Laws, made pursuant thereto, shall, before he enters
upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe the
following oath, or affirmation: I, , do
swear, (or affirm, as the case may be), that I will support
the Constitution of the United States; and that I wid be

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faithful and bear true allegiance to the State of Maryland,
and support the Constitution and Laws thereof; and that I
will, to the best of my skill and judgment, diligently and
faithfully without partiality or prejudice, execute the office
of , according to the Constitution and
Laws of this State, (and, if a Governor, Senator, Member
of the House of Delegates, or Judge,) that I will not
directly or indirectly receive the profits or any part of the
profits of any other office during the term of my acting
as

SEC. 10. Any officer elected or appointed in pur-
suance of the provisions of this Constitution, may qualify,
either according to the existing provisions of law, in rela-
tion to officers under the present Constitution, or before
the Governor of the State, or before any Clerk of any Court
of Record in any part of the State; but in case an officer
shall qualify out of the County in which he resides, an
official copy of his oath shall be filed and recorded in the
Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the County in which
he may reside, or in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court
of the City of Baltimore, if he shall reside therein. All words
or phrases, used in creating public offices and positions
under the Constitution and laws of this State, which denote
the masculine gender shall be construed to include the
feminine gender, unless the contrary intention is specifical-
ly expressed.

SEC. II.²⁴ Every person, hereafter elected, or ap-
pointed, to office, in this State, who shall refuse, or neglect,
to take the oath, or affirmation of office, provided for in
the ninth section of this Article, shall be considered as
having refused to accept the said office; and a new election,
or appointment, shall be made, as in case of refusal to
accept, or resignation of an office; and any person violating
said oath, shall, on conviction thereof, in a Court of Law,
in addition to the penalties now, or hereafter, to be imposed
by Law, be thereafter incapable of holding any office of
profit or trust in this State.

SEC. 12. Except as otherwise specifically provided
herein, a person is ineligible to enter upon the duties of, or
to continue to serve in, an elective office created by or
pursuant to the provisions of this Constitution if the person
was not a registered voter in this State on the date of the
person's election or appointment to that term or if, at any
time thereafter and prior to completion of the term, the
person ceases to be a registered voter.

ARTICLE II.

EXECUTIVE DEEAKTMENT.

SECTION I.²⁶ The executive power of the State shall
be vested in a Governor, whose term of office shall com-
mence on the third Wednesday of January next ensuing his