116 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. I

CONSTITUTION.*

ARTICLE I.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

Section 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every whitet
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 elec-
toral 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 elec-
tion 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.

Bevard v Hoffman, 18 Md 479 Miles v. Bradford, 22 Md. 171.
Shaeffer v. Gilbert, 73 Md. 66. Southerland v. Norris, 74 Md. 326 Kemp
v Owens, 76 Md 237. Langhammer v Munter, 80 Md. 518. Hanna v
Young, 84 Md 179. Howard v Skinner, 87 Md. 558. Davidson v Brice,
91 Md. 688.

Sec. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years, con-
victed 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.

State v. Bixler, 62 Md. 354.

*All amendments to the Constitution are Included In brackets and follow the section,
as originally adopted.

t The word " white" omitted under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States