SEC. 4. No person who has at any time been in armed hostility to the United States. or the lawful authorities thereof. or who has been in any manner In the service of the socalled Confederate States of America. and no person who has voluntarily left this State and gone within the military lines of the socalled Confederate States or armies. with the purpose of adhering to said States or armies. and no person who has given any aid. comfort. countenance. or support to those engaged in armed hostility to the United States. or in any manner adhered to the enemies of the United States. either by contributing to the enemies of the United States. or unlawfully sending within the lines of such enemies. money. or goods. or letters. or information. or who has disloyally held communication with the enemies of the United States. or who has advised any person to enter the service of the said enemies. or aided any person so to enter. or who has by any open deed or word declared his adhesion to the cause of the enemies of the United States. or his desire for the triumph of said enemies over the arms of the United States. shall ever be entitled to vote at any election to be held in this State. or to hold any office of honor. profit. or trust under the laws of this State. unless since such unlawful acts he shall have voluntarily entered into the military service of the United States. and have been honorably discharged therefrom. or shall be on the day of election actually and voluntarily in such service. or unless he shall be restored to his full rights of citizenship by an act of the general assembly passed by a vote of twothirds of all the Members elected to each House. and it shall be the duty of all officers of registration and judges of election carefully to exclude from voting. or being registered. all persons so as above disqualified. 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 any ordinance of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. that I will in all respect demean myself as a loyal citizen of the United States. and I make this oath or affirmation without any reservation or evasion. and I believe it to be binding to 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 rights 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 relation 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. SEC. 5. If any person shall give. or offer to give. directly or indirectly. or hath given. or offered to give. since the 4th day of July 1851. any bribe. present. or reward. or any promise. or any security for the payment or delivery of money or any other thing to induce any voter to refrain from casting his vote or forcibly to prevent him in any way from voting. or to procure a vote. for any candidate or person proposed or voted for as elector of President and Vice President of the United States or Representative in Congress. or for any office of profit or trust created by the constitution or laws of this State. or by the ordinances or authority of the mayor and city council of Baltimore. the person giving. or offering to give. and the person receiving the same. and any person who gives. or causes to be given. an illegal vote. knowing it to be such. at any election to be hereafter held in this State. or who shall be guilty of or accessory to a fraud. force. surprise. or bribery to procure himself or any other person to be nominated to any office. national.
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