50 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Art. 1]

Constitution should be by ballot was not a legislative enactment. A proposed amend-
ment to the Constitution need not be submitted to the Governor for his approval before
it is voted on by the people, and the Governor has no authority to veto such a bill.
Bills held not to contain distinct legislation; mandamus. Warfield v. Vandiver, 101 Md.
108. (See also, dissenting opinion, pages 128-132. )

This section referred to in discussing meaning of term "citizen"—see notes to Code,
art. 25, sec. 144. Fitzwater v. Hydro-Elec. Corp., 149 Md. 466.

Sec. 1, Ch. 94, Acts of 1937, providing for use of voting machines in Baltimore City,
not in violation of provision requiring elections to be by ballot, as that term has been
used to describe voting by balls, etc., and machines which register votes. Norris v.
Baltimore, 172 Md. 667.

Cited in construing Art. 33, Sec. 19. Hill v. Board of Registry, 171 Md. 657.

See notes to art. 33, sec. 14, An. Code.

Sec. 1A. 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 and engaged in the Military or Naval Service
of the United States at the time of any election from the ward or election
district in which they are entitled to vote, 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. ¹

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.

Meaning of "infamous crime" as used in this section. This section referred to in
sustaining a demurrer to an indictment for perjury. State v. Bixler, 62 Md. 359. Cf.
State v. Floto, 81 Md. 601. And see, Garitee v. Bond, 102 Md. 384.

This section referred to in construing art. 1, sec. 4, of the Constitution of 1864,
and art. 1, secs. 1 to 5 of this Constitution—see notes to art. 1, sec. 1. Anderson v.
Baker, 23 Md. 618.

Sec. 3. 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 pay-
ment 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 Repre-
sentative 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 hereafter 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. ²

This section referred to in construing art. 1, sec. 4 of the Constitution of 1864, and
art. 1, secs. 1 to 5 of this Constitution—see notes to art. 1, sec. 1. Anderson v. Baker,
23 Md. 618.

See art. 3, sec. 50, Md. Constitution, and art. 27, sec. 27, et seq., An. Code.

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

¹ This section was added by act of 1918, ch. 20, ratified November, 1918.

² Thus amended by the act of 1912, ch. 602, ratified November 4, 1913.