Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-26

tings, the power OF justice OF the peace 70
preserve order and enforce obedience TO his
lawful commands as or around his place OF
registration; to keep the access 70 such place
open and unobstructed; to prevent and sup
press riots tumult, violence aud disorder, and
all other improper practices at al ound or
near to his place of registration tending 70 IN
timidation or to the obstruction OF the work
OF registration, or the revision OF the regis
tration, and TO protect and keep safe the reg
istries of voters hereinafter eferred TO while
in his custody and possession; be may compel
the presence of witnesses before him while sit
Ting as an officer Of registration for all pur-
poses connected with the performance OF the
duties of bis Office by summons and attachment;
he NAV while sitting such officer OF regis
tration commit for trial any person commit
ting at or around his place ofregistration any
offense forbidden by this article; he shall
have the power 20 Issue any OF said summons,
attachments or commitm ents when sitting In
any county of this State 10 the sheriff OF said
county or 10 any constable thereof; al such
processes shall be served by said respective
officers in the same manner as ii they were IS
sued by the Judge of court of record having
jurisdiction Of the utject ma tier 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 same fees and in like manner as IL is
or NAV be by law provided that he shalt re-
ceive fees in other State cases, but no ofhcer
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 acated or removed
from or have gone with their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domicile, dwell
ing-place or habitation within this State, and
shall have taken a domicile, dweling-place,
ohO d hah nuf Of shall 4
conclusiveiy presumed to have thereby in
tended to abandon their legal residence in this
State, and TO have surrendered their right to
registratio ieRal voters in the State unless
within thirty days after the passage OF this
act thew shall 60 in person before the clerk o I
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 bad a fixed purpose to
return al definite time, and they intended TO
return to this state aud 10 take up their
actual domociie or habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tuesday
after the first Monday o. November, eighteen
hundred and ninety; and unless the person
respectively making such afidavits shall &C
tually return 10 this State and shall actually
take up their abode, domicile or habita ton
therein six months before the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
bred and ninety, they shall be conclusivey
presumed to have lost their legal residence
therein anc shall not be entitled to registration
therein as legal voters, and the officers OF reg
istratoL 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, un less 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, ii
such removal be from said city, and shall
make and acknowledge before him an afida-
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 a 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
afidavits shall fail SO to return and take up
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 conclusively presumed to
have abandoned such declared intention and
this State, and the officers of registration
shall refuse to register them 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 acknowledgment the sum of thirty
cents, and for indexing and recording the ali-
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 afiidavits 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 from the date If
the acknowledgment thereto, and a du ly GER
titled copy thereof shall be receivable in evil
dence in the same manner a certified copy
of deed; false sw caring in any such afidav-
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-
iury;" said officers of registration shall re.
quire the production Of such afidavits duly
recorded, or a duly certified copy thereof in
all cases where they shall have reason to SUI
pect that the person applying to be registered
as q qualified voter has lost his residence BY
reason of bis removal from the State as here
inbefore mentioned, and they may also 10 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 G,
the time when he so removed, and when he
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 10 such
questions TO be Corroborated by ind ependent
evidence IL in their discretion they shall think
proper; and if in answer 70 their questions or
upon testimony produced before them it shall
appear to their satisfaction that the person ap-
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.