It is shown that Maxwell's equations can be consistently symmetrized by the introduction of an additional vector 4-current as the source of the dual of the generalized electromagnetic tensor. The additional 4-current is related to a second type of electric charge which we shall call "m-electric charge," as distinguished from the conventional electric charge (denoted as "e-electric" charge). A Lagrangian formulation of this theory for classical point charges is constructed, yielding the symmetrized Maxwell equations, in which each particle is assumed to carry both an "e-electric" charge and an "m-electric" charge. We show that if the m-electric to e-electric charge ratio is the same for all particles in the model universe, then the predictions of the symmetrized Maxwell equations are the same as that of the unsymmetrized, conventional Maxwell equations. However, if all particles in a detector carry the same m-electric to e-electric charge ratio, not equal to zero, then a detected particle with different m-electric to e-electric charge ratio (than that of the detector) could appear to have only a fractional e-electric charge. This implies that fractionally charged particles could be generated even if only integral multiples of e-charge and m-charge were allowed in the symmetrized theory. This means that it might be experimentally difficult to distinguish between a differently "m-charged" particle, and an SU3-type "quark," in purely electromagnetic interactions alone.