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Public Teacher or Preacher of the Gospel, as such, or any
Religious Sect, Order or Denomination, without the prior
or subsequent sanction of the Legislature, shall be void;
except always, any sale, gift, lease or devise of any
quantity of land, not exceeding five acres, for a church,
meeting-house, or other house of worship, or parsonage,
or for a burying ground, which shall be improved, enjoyed
or used only for such purpose; or such sale, gift, lease
or devise shall be void. Provided, however, that except
in so far as the General Assembly shall hereafter by law
otherwise enact, the consent of the legislature shall not
be required to any gift, grant, deed, or conveyance
executed after the 2nd day of November, 1948, or to any
devise or bequest, contained in the will of any person
dying after said 2nd day of November, 1948, for any of
the purposes hereinabove in this Article mentioned.]
Article 46.
Equality of rights under the law shall not be
abridged or denied because of sex.

Article I — Elective Franchise
1.
All elections shall he by ballot[; and every].
EVERY citizen of the United States, of the age of
[twenty-one] 18 years[, ] or upwards, who [has teen] IS a
resident of the State [for six months, and of the
Legislative District of Baltimore city, or of the county,
in which he may offer to vote,] as of the tiae for the
clcsing of registration next preceding the election,
shall be entitled to vote£, ] in the ward or election
district[r] in which h€ resides[,] at all elections
thereafter} to oe held in this State. A person[, who
shall nave acquired a residence in such county or city,
entitling him to vote at any such election, shall te
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.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, for
purposes of voting for President ard Vice-President of
the United States or for electors for those offices, the
General Assembly may prescribe by law a lesser residence


 
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