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security for the payment, or the 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 Elector of Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the 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 Au-
thority 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, know-
ing 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 dis-
qualified to hold any office of profit or trust, or to vote at any
election thereafter.

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 word of the
City of Baltimore, 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 elec-
tion 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.

SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uni-
form Registration of the names of all the voters in this State who
possess the qualifications prescribed in this Article, which Regis-
tration shall be conclusive 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 elec-
tion, Federal or State, hereafter to be held in this State, or at any
municipal election in the City of Baltimore, unless his name ap-
pears 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,