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ties 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.

Sec. 4. 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 Balti-
more, 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. 5. The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform
Registration of the names of all the 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 election in the City of Baltimore,
unless his name appears in the list of registered voters; and until the
General Assembly shall hereafter pass an Act for the Registration of
the names of voters, the law in force on the first day of June, in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in reference thereto, shall be
continued in force, except so far as it may be inconsistent with the
provisions of this Constitution; and the registry of voters, made in pur-
suance thereof, may be corrected, as provided in said law; but 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.

Sec. 6. 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 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 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. 7. Every person hereafter elected or appointed to office in this
State, who shall refuse or neglect to take the oath or affirmation of office
provided for in the sixth section of this Article, shall be considered as
having refused to accept the said office; and a new election or appoint-