Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-06

hereinafter conferred upon him, or which may
be hereafter conferred upon him BY law dur
ing the respective times Of his appointed sit
tings, the power OF a justice OF the peace 10
preserve order and enforce obedience to his
lawful commands at or around his place OF
registration; 10 keep the access 20 such place
open and unobstrucied; to prevent and sup
press riots, tumnlt, violence aud disorder, and
all other improper practices at, around or
near 10 his place Of registration tending to IN
timidati0n or 20 the obstruction Of the work
OF registration, or the revision OF the regis
trafion. and 70 protect and keep safe the reg
istriee OF voters hereinafter re teTred 10 while
in his custody and possession; he 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 his office by summons and attachment;
be NAV while sitting as such officer Of regis
tration commit Tor trial any person commit
ting at or around bis place ofreEistration any
0ffense forbidden by this article; he shall
have the power 10 Issue any OF said summons,
attachments o. 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 IS ii thew were Is
sued by the Judge Of a court of record having
jurisdiction Of the sui ect aster or by JUS
tice OF the peace exercising police powers
within such respective Jurisdictions; the sherln
or auv constable in any cAanty in this State
who shall serSe any OF said processes shall re-
ceive the same fees and in hike manner as il is
or NAV be BY law provided that he shall re-
ceive fees in other State cases, but no officer
of registration shalt 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 gone 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 habitati0n cut of this State, shall be
conclusively presumed t, have thereby in
tended to abandon their legal residence IN this
State, aud to have surrendered their right to
registration as legal voters in the State unless
within thirty days after the passage of this
act they shall go in person before the clerk OF
the circuit court for the county from which
they shall have so removed and make and
acknowl ledge 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 to this state aud to take up their
actual domocile or habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the uesday
after the first Monday November, eighteen
hundred and ninety; and unless the person
respectively making such atiidavits shall ac-
tually return TO this State and shall actually
take up their abode, domcile or habita ton
therein six months before the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
dred and ninety, they shall be conclusively
presumed 10 have lost their legal residence
therein ant shall not be entitled e. reg istratiOn
therein as legal voters, and the officers OF reg
istratioL shall strike OFF their names from the
registry. If they be entered thereon; and after
the passage of this act all persons who sha II
o.,H IN. ala af k,afr
actual domicile. abode. dwelling-piace or abi-
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 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, if
such removal be from said city, and shall
make and acknowledge before him an aiiida-
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 before six months preceding
the next succeeding election in NOVEMBER;
and IL the persons making such
affidavits shall fail so to return and take up
their actual abode, domicile, dwelling-place
months next preceding such November cleo
ton, they shall be conclusiYely 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 acknowledged the sum of thirty
cents, and for indexing and recording the afli-
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 from the date of
the acknowledgment thereto, and du ly GER
tilted copy thereof shall be receivable in evil
dence in the same manner as certified copy
of deed; false sw caring in any such atfjdav-
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 s'Per-
jury;'' said officers of registration shall re.
duire the production of such affidavits duly
recorded, or duly certified copy thereof in
all cases where they shall have reason to SUI
pect that the person applying to be registered
IS qualified voter has lost his residence by
reason of his 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 e,
the time when he so removed, and when he
returned, and all other pertinent facts and cir
caustaHces 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 Corroborated by ind ependent
evidence If in their discretion they shall think
proper; and if in answer to their questions or
upon testimony produced before them il 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 legal voter,