PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION. 447

or other officers performing similar functions, shall not be
abolished by the General Assembly unless by a vote of four-
fifths of all the members of each house. The right to be regis-
tered as a qualified voter and the right to vote at any State or
municipal election in this State shall be limited to the follow-
ing persons: First, every male white citizen not disqualified by
the Second or Third Section of this Article possessing the

qualifications as to. age and residence mentioned in Section 1
of this Article; second, every other male citizen not disquali-
fied by the Second or Third Sections of this Article possessing
the qualifications as to age and residence mentioned in Section
1 of this Article, who at the time of his application for regis-
tration is the bona-fide owner of real or personal property, or
both, in an amount of not less than five hundred dollars, is
assessed therefor on the tax books of the City of Baltimore or
of one of the counties of this State, has been such owner and so
assessed for two years next preceding his application for regis-
tration, shall have paid and shall produce receipts for the
taxes on said property for said two years, and shall at the
time of his application make affidavit before the officers of
registration that he is the bona-fide owner of the property so
assessed to him, and that he has been such owner for two years
next preceding his application. If any persons other than
those herein mentioned shall be or become legally entitled to

be registered as voters at State elections in this State, then
this section shall be null and void, and the General Assembly
:shall possess the same powers as if this section had never been
adopted, and the laws of this State, including the local laws
applicable to certain counties thereof, relating to the form of
ballot to be used at elections, in force on the first day of July
in the year nineteen hundred and ten, shall revive or continue
in force until altered by the General Assembly, notwithstanding
any acts to the contrary which may have been passed while the
terms of this section shall have been in force or while the
General Assembly shall have belived or assumed the provisions
of this section to be valid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid,
That the aforesaid section hereby proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution shall be, at the next general election held
in this State, submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection in pursuance of the directions
contained in Article 14 of the Constitution of this State, and
at the said general election the vote on the said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon

each ballot shall be printed the words, "For Constitutional
Amendment" and "Against Constitutional Amendment," as
now provided by law, and immediately after said election due