the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being 21 years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such State.

Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a Member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this Article.

Fifteenth Amendment.

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation.

Seventeenth Amendment.

(The XVII Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the Legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-second Congress on May 16, 1912, and the Secre tary of State announced on May 31, 1913, that it had been ratified by the Legislatures of 36 of the 48 States.)

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislatures.

"When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall

issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.

Provided, that

the Legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointment until the people fill the vacancies by election as the Legislature may direct.

"This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution."

Nineteenth Amendment.

(The Nineteenth Amendment was declared in a proclamation of the Secretary of State dated August 26, 1920, to have been ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight States.)

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

"Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

Public Act 346 of 67th Congress.

(H. R. 12022.)

An act relative to the naturalization and citizenship of married women.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of any woman to become a naturalized citizen of the United States shall not be denied or abridged because of her sex or because she is a married

woman.

Sec. 2. That any woman who marries a citizen of the United States after the passage of this Act, or any woman whose husband is naturalized after the passage of this Act, shall not become a citizen of the United States by reason of such marriage or natuarlization; but, if eligible to citizenship, she may be naturalized upon full and complete compliance with all requirements of the naturalization laws, with the following exceptions:

(a) No declaration of intention shall be required;

(b) In lieu of the five-year period of residence within the United States and the one-year period of residence within the State or Territory where the naturalization court is held, she shall have resided continuously in the United States, Hawaii, Alaska, or Porto Rico for at least one year immediately preceding the filing of the petition.

Sec. 3. That a woman citizen of the United States shall not cease to be a citizen of the United States by reason of her marriage after the passage of this Act, unless she makes a formal renunciation of her citizenship before a court having jurisdiction over naturalization of aliens: Provided, That any woman citizen who marries an alien ineligible to citizenship shall cease to be a citizen of the United States. If at the termination of the marital status she is a citizen of the United States she shall retain her citizenship regardless of her resi dence. If during the continuance of the marital status she resides continuously for two years in a foreign State of which her husband is a citizen or subject, or for five years continuously outside the United States, she shall thereafter be subject to the same presumption as is a naturalized citizen of the United States under the second paragraph of Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad," approved March 2, 1907. Nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or amend the provisions of Revised Statutes 1999 or of Section 2 of the Expatriation Act of 1907 with reference to expatriation.

Sec. 4. That a woman who, before the passage of this Act, has lost her United States citizenship by reason of her marriage to an alien eligible for citizenship, may be naturalized as provided by Section 2 of this Act: Provided, That no certificate of arrival shall be required to be filed with her petition if during the continuance of the marital status she shall have resided within the United States. After her naturalization she shall have the same citizenship status as if her marriage had taken place after the passage of this Act.

Sec. 5. That no woman whose husband is not eligible to citizenship shall be naturalized during the continuance of the marital status.

Sec. 6. That Section 1994 of the Revised Statutes and Section 4 of the Expatriation Act of 1907 are repealed. Such repeal shall not terminate citizenship acquired or retained under either of such sections nor restore citizenship lost under Section 4 of the Expatriation Act of 1907.

Sec. 7. That Section 3 of the Expatriation Act of 1907 is repealed. Such repeal shall not restore citizenship lost under such section nor terminate citizenship resumed under such section. A woman who has resumed under such section citizenship lost by marriage shall, upon the passage of this Act, have for all purposes the same citizenship status as immediately preceding her marriage. Approved, September 22, 1922.

INSTRUCTIONS

-TO

OFFICERS OF ELECTION AND REGISTRATION

PREPARED BY THE

ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF MARYLAND.

In Compliance with the Provisions of Section 122 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

To the Judges and Clerks of Election:

Gentlemen :-The following instructions have been prepared by me in accordance with the directions of Section 122 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland. It will be your duty to read them carefully. The reading of these instructions, however, should not lead anyone to suppose that it will be unnecessary to read the Election Law itself. This, each of you should do, and you should make yourself familiar with all of its provisions, which in any way relate to the discharge of the duties committed to you. I wish to urge upon you particularly the necessity of conforming strictly to all the provisions of the law. It is possible that in the conditions existing in particular precincts you may think that some of the safeguards of the law are unnecessary and that time may be saved by omitting them. Such omissions, however, you have no right to make. The whole law is one statute by which the election system is governed, and provisions which may seem in particular places or under particular circumstances to be of slight importance are really essential features of the entire scheme. Any wilful omission of any requirement of law will be an offense. It is expressly made the duty of the Supervisors of Election in each county and city, whenever they have probable cause to believe that any offense against the law has been committed, to cause a prosecution to be instituted against the guilty person.

I am, yours respectfully,

ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG,

Attorney-General.

PART I.

INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGES OF ELECTIONS WHEN ACTING AS
BOARDS OF REGISTRY.

SECTION I.

Intermediate Registration Days in 1923 in the Counties.

First Sitting.

Second Sitting.

..Tuesday, October 2.
..Tuesday, October 9.

Third Sitting (Revision Day)... Tuesday, October 16. No new names added at Third Sitting (Revision Day). Secs. 31 and 34.

Hours of Registration in the counties from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Hours of Revision in the counties from 8 A. M. to 7 P. M.

Intermediate Registration Days in Baltimore City in 1923.

First Sitting.. Tuesday, September 25. Second Sitting. Tuesday, October 9. Third Sitting (Revision Day)..Tuesday, October 16. No new names added at Third Sitting (Revision Day). Sec. 27.

Hours of Registration and Revision in Baltimore city from 12 M. to 8 P. M.

For Primary Election in the Counties.

On the Tuesday preceding any Primary Election. Sec. 17A.

Judges of Election, Absent or Late, Liable to Fine or Imprisonment.

The absence of a judge of election from his registration office during the hours in which, by law, the office should be open, is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not less than 10 days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than $20 nor more than $500. (Art. 33, Sec. 107.)

Appointment of Substitute Judges.

When any judge is absent from the registration office during the sittings, the other judge or judges present must appoint as substitute judge some person of the same political party