Art. 1.] State of Maryland. 23

tration and Judges of Election carefully to exclude from
voting, or being registered, all persons so as above dis-
qualified; and the Judges of Election at the first election
held under this Constitution shall, and at any subsequent
election may, administer to any person offering to vote the

following oath or affirmation: I do swear or affirm that I
am a citizen of the United States, that I have never given
any aid, countenance or support to those in armed hostility
to the United States, that I have never expressed a desire
for the triumph of said enemies over the arms of the United
States, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the
United States and support the Constitution and laws
thereof as the supreme law of the land, any law or ordi-
nance of any State to the contrary notwithstanding; that
I will in all respects demean myself as a loyal citizen of
the United States, and I make this oath or affirmation
without any reservation or evasion, and believe it to be
binding on me; and any person declining to take such oath
shall not be allowed to vote, but the taking of such oath
shall not be deemed conclusive evidence of the right of
such person to vote; and any person swearing or affirming
falsely shall be liable to penalties of perjury, and it shall be
the duty of the proper officers of registration to allow no
person to be registered until he shall have taken the oath
or affirmation above set out, and it shall be the duty of the
Judges of Election in all their returns of the first election
held under this Constitution to state in their said returns
that every person who has voted has taken such oath or
affirmation. But the provisions of this section in rela-
tion to acts against the United States shall not apply to
any person not a citizen of the United States who shall
have committed such acts while in the service of some
foreign country at war against the United States, and who
has, since such acts, been naturalized, or may be naturalized,
under the laws of the United States, and the oath above
set forth shall be taken in the case of such persons in such
sense.

Oath of Voters.