THE CONSTITUTION.

	ARTICLE I.
	ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
	SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot, and every	Ballot
	white male citizen of the United States, of the age of
	twenty-one years or upwards, who shall have resided in the	Qualification of voters
	State one year next preceding the election, and six months	18 Md 479
	in any county, or in any legislative district of Baltimore
	city, and who shall comply with the provisions of this
	Article of the Constitution, shall be entitled to vote, at all
	elections hereafter 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 Congressmen,
	Senator, Delegate, or other officer or officers, then to entitle
	a person to vote for snch officer he must have been a resi-
	dent 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	Removals.
	shall have acquired a residence iu such county or city en-
	titling 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. The General Assembly shall provide by law for	Registration.
	a uniform registration of the names of voters in this State,
	which registration shall be evidence of the qualification of
	said voters to vote at any election thereafter held, but uo
	person shall be excluded from voting at any election on
	account of not being registered until the General Assembly
	shall have passed an act of registration, and the same shall
	have been carried into effect, after which no person shall
	vote unless his name appears on the register. The General