Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-01

attachments or commitments when sitting Ia
any 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 ~ Ii they were is
sued by the Judge Of court of record having
Jurisdiction Of the sulject ma tier or by a 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 1t lie
or may be By Law provided that he shall 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 vacated or removed
from or have gone with their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domicile, dwell
ing-plaee or habitation within this State, and
shall have taken domicile, dwelling lace,
abode or habitation cut of this State, shall be
conclusiveiy presumed 10 have thereby in
tended TO abandon their legal residence In this
State, and to have surrendered their right 70
registra ton as regal voters ia the State unless
within thirty days after the passage Of this
act thew shall 90 in person before the clerk of
the circuit court for the couaty 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 q fixed purpose to
return at definite time, aud they intended 10
return 20 this State aud 90 take up their
actual domocile or habitation 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 affidavits shall ac-
tualIy return to this State and shall actually
take up their abode, domicile or habita ton
a. a -. - IT,. u. e.
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
dred and ninety, they shall be conciusively
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 SD all 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 aud remove from the place of their
actual domicie, abode, dwelling place or habi-
tation out of this State shall be conclusiv ely
presumed to have lost their residence in his
State. and shall in consequences thereof 0e-
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, ii
such removal be from said city, and shall
make aud 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 November
and If the persons making such
affidavits shall fail so TO return aud 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 of 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 acknow ledgment the SUN of thirty
cents, and for indexing and recording the AFT
davits and acknow Judgments thereto, the same
compensation as is allowed by law for index
ing and recording deeds, such c0sts to be paid
TO said clerks by the commissioners and mayor
and city council of Baltimore respectively
such atfidaVits 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 Eve days FROM the date Of
the acknowledgment thereto, and duly GER
tilted copy thereof shall be receivab lie in evil
dence in the same manner as a certified copy
its shall be deemed to be perjury, and shall be
punishable as perjury is by the Code of Pub
lie General Laws, article twenty-sev en-, title
"Crimes and Punishments," subtitle ssPer-
jury" said officers of registration shall re
quire the production Of snch affidavits 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 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,
his occupation before such removal and sine e,
the time when he so removed, and when be
returned, and all other pertinent facts aud cir
cumstances touching the right OF such person
to be registered, and they may req uire the
truth of the answers Of all persons to such
questions TO be Lorroborated by ind ependent
evidence if in their discretion they shall think
proper; and ii in answer to the questions or
upon testimony produced before them il shall
appear to their satisfaction that the person APP
plying 10 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 IS a legal voter.