28 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. I

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 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
conviction in a Court of Law, in addition to the penalties now or here-
after 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.]*

This section referred to in construing article 1, section 4, of the con-
stitution of 1864, and article 1, sections 1 to 5 of this constitution—see
note to article 1, section 1. Anderson v. Baker, 23 Md. 618.

See article 3, section 50, of the Md. constitution, and article 27, section
20, et seq., of the code of 1904.

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.

For cases dealing with article 1, section 4, of the constitution of 1864
(disfranchising Confederate soldiers and providing for a test oath), see
Anderson v. Baker. 23 Md. (131; Hardesty v. Taft. 23 Md. 524.

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 con-
clusive 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

*Thus amended by the act of 1912, ch. 602, ratified November 4, 1913.