Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-13

ting at or around his place ofregistratiOn any
ofFense forbidden BIZ this articles be shan
have the power to issue any OF said summons
attachments or eommitm ents when sitting 10
suy county Of this State 70 the sheriff Of said
county or to any constable thereof; all such
processes shall be served By said respective
officers in the same manner IS Il they we're ~
sued BY the Judge ola court of record having
jurisdiction Of The subject ma tier or By jus
tice Of the peace exercising police powers
within such respective jurisdictions; the sheriff
or any constable in any county IA this State
who shall serve anv Of said processes shall re-
ceive the same fees and in like manner as II Is
or nav be by Law provided that he shat re-
ceive fees in other State cases, but no onicer
Of registration shall charge or receive any
compensation for any service perlormed.onder
this article except such as Is provided by tins
article.
Sec. Ia. All persons who prior TO the pa 5
sage Of this act shall have vacated or removed
from or have gone with their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domiciie, dwell
ing-place or habitation within this State, and
shall have taken domicile. dwelling place,
abode or habifation cut of this State, shai be
conclasiveiy presumed u have thereby in-
tended TO abandon their legal residence In this
State. and 10 have surrendered their right to
registration as legal voters in the State unless
within thirty days after tue passage Of this
act thew shall 90 in person before the clerk q
the circuit court for the county from which
they shall have removed and make aud
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 20
return at a definite time, and they intended to
return TO this State aud 70 take up their
actual domocile or haoitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tuesday
after the first Monday of November, eighteen
k.,w I'D .su &C.. and mn4Sass the
respectively making such atfidavits shalt ae-
tuAly return to this State and shall actually
take up their abode, domicilc or habita ton
therein six months before the Tuesday after
the irst Monday in November, eighteen hGn-
dred and ninety, they shall be concsusively
presumed to have lost their legal residence
therein anc shall not be entitled q registration
therein as legal voters, and the officers OF reg
islratioL shall strike OF their names from the
registry, if they be entered thereon: and after
the passage OF this act ali persons woo shall
vacdte 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 tbs
State, and shall in consequence thereof be-
come disqualified 10 vote, nless at about
the time of such removal or within ten days
thereafter they shall 90 in person before the
clerk of the circuit court for the county from
which they shall so remove, or before the clerk
of the superior court of Baltimore city, IL
such removal be from said city, and shall
make and acknowledge before him an aliida-
vii declaring that Notwithstanding such re-
moval from their domcile, abode, dwelling
place or habitation, they do not intend thereby
10 change their legal residence bat that they
have fixed and definite purpose to return to
this State on before six months preceding
the next succeeding election in November
and If the persons making such
afiidAvits shall fail so TO return and take up
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and habitation Ia this State on or before six
months aext preceding such November cleo
ton, they shall be cnnclusively 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 qualified voters,
or shall strike Oft their names from the reg
istrY if their names be entered ID ereon; the
clerk before whom such affidavit shall be
made, shall retain, iudey and record the same,
and shall be entitled to demand and receive
for each aeknow ledgmeDt the sum of thirty
cents, and for indexing and recording the ain
davits and acknow Judgments thereto, the same
compensation as is allowed by law for index
ing and recording deeds, such costs to be paid
10 said clerks by the commissioners aud mayor
and city council of Baltimore respectively
such afiidavits shall not be admissible in evil
dence as evidence of the right Of the persons
making the same to registration, unless they
the acknowledgment thereto, and duly GER
tilted copy thereof shall be receivable 10 evil
dence in the same manner as certified copy
of deed; false sw caring ia any such atfidav-
its hall be deemed to be perjury, and shah be
punishable as perjury is by the Code of Pub
lie General Laws, article twenty-seven, title
"Crimes and Punishments," sub title ssPer-
iury;" said officers of registration shall re
quire the production of such afidavits duly
recorded, or duly certified copy thereof ia
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 slso 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 &,
the time when he so removed, and when he
returned, and all other pertinent facts and cir
cumstances touching the right OF such person
to be registered, and they may req ire the
truth of the answers of all persons to such
questions TO be Lorrob3rated by ind ependeat
evidence if in their discretion they shall think
proper; and If in answer to their questions or
upon testimony produced before them il shalt
appear to their satisfaction that the person APP
plying to be registered had left the State with
out any intention of returning at soms def.
mite time in the future he shall not be entitled
to be registered as a legal voter.