52 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 1

CONSTITUTION.*

ARTICLE I.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

Section 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every f male
citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, or upwards,
who has been a resident of the State for one year, and of the Legislative
District of Baltimore City, or of the county, in which he may offer to
vote, for six months next preceding the election, shall be entitled to
vote, in the ward or election district in which he resides, at all elections
hereafter to be held in this State; and in case any county or city shall
be so divided as to form portions of different electoral districts, for
the election of Representatives in Congress, Senators, Delegates or
other Officers, then to entitle a person to vote for such officer, he must
have been a resident of that part of the county, or city, which shall
form a part of the electoral district, in which he offers to vote, for six
months next preceding the election; but a person, who shall have-
acquired a residence in such county or city, entitling him to vote at
any such election, shall be entitled to vote in the election district from
which he removed, until he shall have acquired a residence in the part
of the county or city to which he has removed.

Sec. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years, convicted of
larceny or other infamous crime, unless pardoned by the Governor, shall
ever thereafter, be entitled to vote at any election in this State; and
no person under guardianship, as a lunatic, or as a person non compos-
mentis, shall be entitled to vote.

Sec. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly or indi-
lectly, any bribe, present or reward, or any promise, or any security,
for the payment or the 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 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 Balti-
more, 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 addition to the penal-

*All amendments to the Constitution are Included in brackets and follow the
section as originally adopted.

+The word "white" omitted under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.