Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-11


ting at or around bis place ofregistration any
offense forbidden By this articles he shall
have the power TO issue any OF said summons,
attachments or commitments when sitting in
any county Of this State 10 the sheriff OF said
county or to any constable thereof; all such
processes shall be served By said respective
officers in the same manner as Il they were IS
sued BY the judge OF a court OF record having
iurisdic ton Of the subject matter or by jus
tice of the peace exercising police powers
within such respective jurisdictions; the sheriff
or any constable in any county In this State
who shall serve any of said processes shall re-
ceive the sam e fees and in like manner as II Il
or NAV be By Law provided that he shat 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 oy this
article.
Sec. Ia All persons who prior to the pas
sage of this act shall have vacated or removed
from or have gone With their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domicile, dwell
ing-place or hsbitation within this State, and
shall have taken domicile, dwelling place,
abode or habitati0n cut Of this State, sha!l be
conclusively presumed to have thereby IN
tended TO abandon sheir legal residence IN this
State. and to have surrendered their right TO
registra ton as legal voters in the State unless
within thirty days after the passage OF TINS
act they shall 90 in person before the clerk OF
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 a fixed purpose to
return al definite time, and they intended to
return TO this state aud TO take up their
actual domoeile or habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tue sday
after the first Monday Of November, eighteen
h.r~A anA nen aax~. and
respectively making such afiidavits shall ae-
tually return to this State and shall actually
take up their abode, d0micilc or habita ton
therein six months before the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
dred and ninety, they shall be conclusiyey
presumed to have lost their legal residence
therein anc shall not be entitled TO registration
therein as legal voters, and the officers OF reg
istratioL shall strike OF their names from tbs
registry, IL they be entered thereon; and alter
the passage of this act all persons who sha II
vacate and remove from the place OF their
actual domicile, abode, dwelling place or hsbi-
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, uuless at or about
the time of such removal or within ten days
thereafter they shall 90 in person before the
clerk Of the circuit court Tor the county from
which they shall so remove, or before the clerk
of the superior court of Baltimore city, If
such removal be from said city, and shall
make and acknowledge before him an afiida-
Wit declaring that notwithstanding such re-
moyal from their domicile, abode, dwelling
place or habitation, they do not intend thereby
to change their legal residence but that they
have fixed and definite purpose to return to
this State on or be fore six months preceding
the next succeeding election in November
and If the persons making such
affidavits shall fail so to return and take up
- - Al.ala easi. Il ~lws.s
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, aud the officers of registration
shall refuse to register them as qualified voters,
or shall strike off their names from the reg
istrv if their names be entered III ereon; the
clerk before whom such affidavit shall be
made, shall retain, indey and record the same,
and shall be entitled to demand and receive
for each acknowledgment the sum of thirty
cents, and for indexing and record ing the aifi
davits and acknowledgements 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 affidavits 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 froin the date oil
the acknowledgment thereto, and duly GER
titled copy thereof shall be receivable ia evil
dence in the same manner as a certified copy
of deed; false sw caring In any such athdav
its shall be deemed TO be perjury, and shall be
punishable as perjury is by the Code of Pub
lie General Laws, article twenty title
"Crimes and Punishments," subtitle ''Per-
jury;" said officers of registration shall re.
quire the production of such afidavits duly
recorded, or duly certified copy thereof 10
all cases where they shall have reason to SUI
pect that the person applying to be registered
as a qualified voter has lost his residence by
reason of his removal from the State as here
inbefore mentioned, and they may lso 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,
the time when he so removed, and when he
returned, and all other pertinent facts and CT r
cumstances touching the right OF such person
| to be registered, and they may requ ire the
| truth of the answers of all persons 10 such
| questions to be Gorroborated by ind ependeat
evidence if 10 their discretion they shall think
proper; and ii in answer TO their questions or
| upon testimony produced before them it shall
appear to their sa tisfaction that tue person APP
plying to be registered had left the State with
ont any intention of returning at some def
mite time in the future be shall not be entitled
| to be registered as legal voter.