ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. XXI

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every*
male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years,
or upwards, who has been a resident of the State for one year,
and of the Legislative District of Baltimore City, or of the county,
in which he may offer to vote, for six months next preceding the
election, shall be entitled to vote, in the ward or election district,
in which he resides, at all elections hereafter to be 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
Representatives in Congress, Senators, Delegates, or other Officers,
then, to entitle a person to vote for such officer, he must have been
a resident 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 shall have
acquired a residence in such county or city, entitling him to vote
at any such election, shall be entitled to vote in the election dis-
trict from which he removed, until he shall have acquired a resi-
dence in the part of the county or city to which he has removed.

Bevard v. Hoffman, 18 Md 479. Miles v. Bradford, 22 Md. 171.

SEC. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years, convicted
of larceny or other infamous crime, unless pardoned by the Grov-
ernor, 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.

State v. Bixler, 62 Md. 354.

SEC. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly or
indirectly, any bribe, present, or reward, or any promise, or any

*The word "white," expunged.