PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION. 301

for the submission of said amendment to the qualified voters
of this State for adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, Three-fifths of all the members of each of the two Houses
concurring, that the following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to section one of article one, title
"Elective Franchise, " of the Constitution of this State, and if
adopted by the legal and qualified voters thereof, as herein pro-
vided, it shall supersede and stand in the place and stead of
section one of said article one.

SEC. 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 two years and of the
Legislative District of Baltimore city or of the county in which
he may offer to vote, for one year next preceding the election,
and who, moreover, is duly registered as a qualified voter as
provided in this article, 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 dis-
tricts 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 one year 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 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. Every male citizen
of the United States having the above prescribed qualifications
of age and residence shall be entitled to be registered so as to
become a qualified voter if he be, first: A person who, on the
first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
nine, or prior thereto, was entitled to vote under the laws of
this State, or of any other State of the United States, wherein
he then resided; or second: A male descendant of such last men-
tioned person; or third: A foreign born citizen of the United
States naturalized between the first day of January in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and the date of the
adoption of this section of this article; or fourth: A male de-
scendant of such last mentioned person; or fifth: A person who,
in the presence of the officers of registration, shall, in his own
handwriting, with pen and ink, without any aid, suggestion or
memorandum whatsoever, and without any question or direc-
tion addressed to him by any of the officers of registration,