874 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 603]

profit or trust, or to vote at any election thereafter. But the
General Assembly may in its discretion remove the above pen-
alty 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. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That the said foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall at the next election for
members of the General Assembly of this State to be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of
November, nineteen hundred and thirteen (1913), be submitted
to the legal and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection, in pursuance of the directions contained in Article
14 of the Constitution of this State; and at the said election
the said proposed amendment shall be printed upon the official
ballot and the vote on said proposed amendment to the Constitu-
tion shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot shall be printed the
words "For the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against the
Constitutional Amendment," as now provided by law with an
appropriate box to vote for and against the same as the voter
shall select And upon said ballot the new words proposed to
be added to said section 3 of said Article 1, namely, the words:

"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 upon the vote
buyer alone,"

shall be printed on the official ballot in italics so as to plainly
indicate to the voter the said proposed change in the Constitu-
tion, and immediately after said due election due returns shall
be made to the Governor of the vote for and against said pro-
posed amendment as directed by the said Article 14 of the said
Constitution.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 603.

AN ACT to regulate the taking and catching of oysters in the
Patuxent River and its tributaries within the waters of
Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's counties, and to repeal Chap-
ter 522 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
Session of 1904, as far as they relate to the Patuxent River
and its tributaries in Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's coun-
ties, and to re-enact the same with amendments.