be entitled to vote there until he shall have acquired a
residence in another election district or ward in this State

SEC. 1A.¹⁶ Vacant

SEC. 2.¹⁷ The General Assembly shall provide by law
for a uniform registration of the names of all 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
elecuon in the City of Baltimore, unless his name appears
in the list of registered voters, the names of all persons shall
be added to the list of qualified voters by the officers of
Registration, who have the qualifications prescribed in the
first section of this Article, and who are not disqualified
under the provisions of the second and third sections
thereof

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SEC. 3. 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
at the time of any election in which they are entitled to
vote and for voting by other qualified voters who are
unable to vote personally and for the manner in which and
the time and place at which such absent voters may vote,
and for the canvass and return of their votes

SEC. 4.¹" 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 guardi
anship for mental disability

SEC. 5. 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. 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 b} 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 an)
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 \ ote 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 tor the
purchase of votes on the vote buyer alone

SEC. 7. The General Assembly shall pass Laws
necessary tor the preservation of the punt) of Elections

SEC. 8. The General Assembly, shall make provi
sions 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 dunes of such office, take and subscribe the
followme oath. or affirmation I, , do
swear, (or affirm, as the case may be), that I will support
the Constituuon of the United States, and that I will be
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 1 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 pursu
ance of the provisions of this Constitution, may qualify,
either according to the existing provisions of law, in
relation 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 m which he
resides, an official copy of his oath shall be tiled 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 C ity of Baltimore, if he shall
reside therein All words or phrases, used in creating public