Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-12

ting at or around his place ofregistration any
ofFense forbidden BY this article; he shall
have the power 70 issue any OF said summons,
attachments or c0mmitm ents when sitting IN
auv county Of this State 10 the sherih OF said
county or 20 any constable thereof; al such
processes shall be served By said respective
officers in the same manner IS II they were IS
sued by the Judge OF . court o. reeora nsV M
iurisdic ton of the tiect ma tier or oy Jus
tice OF the peace exercising police powers
with In such respective jurisdictions; the sheriff
or any constable in any county 10 this State
who shall serve any OF said processes snail re-
ceive the same fees and in like manner as II Is
or may be BY Law provided tnat ns snam y, re-
ceive fees IN other State cases, but no officer
Of registration shall charge or receive any
compensation for any service performed under
this article except such as Is provided by this
article.
Sec. IA. All persons who prior to the pa $
sage of this act shall have vaca ted or removed
from or have gone with their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domicile, dwell
ing-place or habilation within this State, and
shall have taken domicile. dwelling-place,
abode or habitation cut of this State, shall be
conclusively presumed u have thereby In
tended 20 abandon their legal residence IN this
State, aud to have surrendered their right TO
registration as regal voters in the State unless
within thirty days after the passage OF this
act they shall go in person before the clerk oil
the circuit court for the county from which
they shall have so removed and make and
acknowledge before such clerk an affidavit
that when they so removed they did not in
tend to change their legal residence within the
State, but that they had fixed purpose to
return at definite time, aud they intended 10
return 70 this State and Co take up their
actual domocile or habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tuesday
after the first Monday OF November, eighteen
~, anH ba
respectively making such affidavits shall &C
tually return to this State and shall actually
take up their abode, domiciie or habita ti0n
therein six months before the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
dred and ninety, they shall be concluslVelys
presumed to have lost their legal residence
therein anc sha not be entitled to registration
therein as legal voters, and the officers OF reg
istratioL shall strike off their names from the
registry If they be entered thereon; and after
the passage of this act all persons who shall
vacate and remove from the place OF their
actual domicile, abode, dwelling place or habi-
tation out of this State shall be conclusively
presumed to have lost their residence in this
State, and shall in consequence thereof be-
come disqualified to vote, unless at or about
the time of such removal or within ten days
thereafter they shall 60 in person before the
clerk of the circuit court for the county from
which they shall so remove, or before the clerk
such removal be from said city, and shall
make and acknowledge before him an aiiida-
Wit declaring that notwithstanding such re-
movaI from their domcile, abode, dwelling
place or habtation, they do not intend thereby
to change their legal residence bat that they
have fixed and definite purpose to return to
this State on or before six months preceding
the next succeeding election in November;
and if the persons making such
affidaVits shall fail so TO return and take up
their actual abode, domicile, dwelling-placs
and habitation in this State on or before six
months next preceding such November cleo
ton, they shall be conclusively presumed to
have abandoned such declared intention and
shall thereupon become disqualified to vote in
this State, and the officers of registration
shall refuse to register them as qualified voters,
or shall strike off their names from the reg
istry if their names be entered thereon; the
clerk before whom such affidavit shall be
made, shall retain, index and record the same,
and shall be entitled to demand and receive
for each acknow ledgment the sum of thirty
cents, and for indexing and record ing the alIi-
davits and acknow ledgments thereto, the same
compensation as is allowed by law for index
ing and recording deeds, such costs to be paid
TO said clerks by the commissioners and mayor
and city council of Baltimore respectively
such afidavits shall not be admissible in evil
dence as evidence of the right of the persons
making the same to registration, unless they
are recorded within five days fi'oln the date of
the acknowledgment thereto, and daly GER
titled copy thereof shall be receivable in evil
dence in the same manner as certified copy
of deed; false sw caring in any such atfidav-
its shall be deemed to be perjury, and shall be
punishable as perjury Is by the Code of Pub
lie General Laws, article twenty-seven, title
"Crimes and Punishments," sub title ssPer-
jury" said officers of registration shall re
quire the production of such afidavits duly
recorded, or duly certified copy thereof in
all cases where they shall have reason to sus-
pect that the person applying to be registered
as qualified voter has lost his residence by
reason Of his removal from the State as here
inbefore mentioned, and they may also in such
cases put any question which they may deem
proper to such applicant, concerning the place
when he dwelt in the county or legislative dis
trict before such removal out of the State,
his occupation before such removal and sine e,
the time when he so removed, and when be
returned, and all other pertinent facts and cir
cumstances touching the right OF such person
to be registered, and they may require the
truth of the answers Of all persons to such
questions 10 be Jorrob0rated by ind ependent
evidence if in their discretion they shall think
proper; and ii in answer to their questions or
upon testimony produced before them il shall
appear to their satisfaction that the person APP
plying to be registered had left the State with
out any intention of returning at some def
mite time in the future be shall not be entitled
TO be registered as a legal voter.