Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-15

ting at or around bis place ofregissration any
offense forbidden BY this article; he shall
have the power to issue any OF said summons,
attachments or commitments when sitting ~
any county Of this State TO the sheriff of said
county or to any constable thereof; all such
processes shalt be served by said respective
officers in the same manner as It they were IS
sued by the Judge of court Of record having
jurisdiction vf The subject ma tier or BY JUS
tice OF the peace exercising police powers
within such respective jurisdictions; the sheriff
or any constable in anv county in this State
who shall serve any Of said processes shall re-
ceive the same fees and in like manner as II Is
or NAV be bv Law provided that be shall re-
ceiTe 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 pas
sage Of this act shall have vacated or removed
from or have goue With their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domicile, dwell
ing-place or habitation within this state, and
shall have taken domicile. dwelling-place,
abode or habitation cut Of this State, shall be
conclusivesy presumed - have thereby in
tended 10 abandon their legal residence In this
State and to have surrendered their right to
registration as legal voters in the State unless
within thirty days after the passage OF this
act theE shall 60 in person before the clerk OF
the circuit court for the county from which
they shall have so 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 to
return at a definite time, and they intended TO
return 70 this State aud 10 take up their
actual domocile or habitafion therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tuesday
after the FIRST Monday % November, eighteen
hundred and ninety; and unless the person
respectively making such ailidavits shall ac-
tually return TO this State and shall actually
take up their abode, domiclle or habita ton
therein six months before the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
bred and ninety, they shall be conciusively
presumed 70 have lost their legal residence
therein ane shall not be entitled to registration
therein as legal voters, and the officers OF reg
istratioL shall strike OF their names from the
registry, if they be entered thereon; and after
the passage of this act all persons who sha II
vacate and remove from the place of their
actua domiciie, 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 go 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, it
such removal be from said city, aud shall
make and acknowledge before him an affida-
Wit declaring that Notwithstanding such re-
moval 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 Novnm ber;
and ii the persons making such
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their actual abode, domicile, dwelling-place
and habitation in this State on or before six
months next preceding such November cleo
ton, they shall be c0nclusyely 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
istrv 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 acknowledgment the sum Of thirty
cents, and for indexing and record ing the affi-
davits and acknow Judgments 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 missiOners 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
are recorded within FIVE days froln the date of
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 afiidav-
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," subtitle ''Per-
jury;" said officers of registration shall re.
Quire the production of such affidavits duly
recorded, or a duly certified copy thereof in
all cases where they shall have reason to sur
pect that the person applying to be reg stered
as q qualified voter has lost his residence by
reason of bis 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 aud sine e,
the time when he so removed, and when be
returned, and all other pertinentfacts 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 to be LOrroborated by ind ependeat
evidence If 10 their discretion they shall think
proper; and il in answer to heir 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 he shall not be entitled
TO be registered as legal voter.