Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-08-30


have the power to issue any Of said summons,
attachments or commitm ents when sitting in
any county Of this State 20 the sheriff Of SAID
county or to any constable thereof; all such
processes shall Be served By said respective
officers in the same manner as II they were is
sued bv the iudge Of court of record having
Jurisdiction Of the subject matter or oy 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-
ceivs the same fees and in like manner as IL is
or NAV be by Law provided that he shall re-
ceive fees in other State eases, but no oiilcer
Of registration shalt charge or receive any
compensation for any service performed under
this article except such as Is provided by this
article.
Sec. ID. All persons who prior to the pa s.
sage Of this act shall have vaca ted or red
from or have gone with their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domicile, dwell
inp.place or habitation within this State, and
shali have taken domicile, dwelling place,
abode or habitation cut of this State, shall be
conclusively presumed to have thereby in
tended to abandon their legal residence In this
State, and 20 have surrendered their right 10
registra ton as leRal voters In the State unless
thin thirty days after tue passage OF this
act thev shall 90 in person bsfore the clerk Of
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 had fixed purpose to
return At g definite time, and they intended 10
return TO this State and 70 take up their
actual domocile or habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tue sday
after the first Monday OF November, eighteen
hundred and ninety; and unless the person
respectively making such atidavits shall ac-
Gfafa nd ahaf 4 y
take up their abode, domicilc or habita ton
therein six months before the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
bred and ninety, they shall be conc!uslvely
presumed to have lost their legal residence
therein and 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 ell persons who sha II
yacate and remove from the place of their
actual domicile, abode, dwelling place or habi-
tation out of this State shall be concl usively
presumed Ia have lost their residen &c 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 60 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 affida-
Wit declaring that Notwithstanding such re-
moval from their domiciie, abode, dwelling
place or habitation, they do not intend thereby
to change their legal residence but that they
have q fixed and definite purpose to return TO
this State on or be fore six months preceding
the next succeeding election in Novn mber I;
and IL the persons making such
afidavits shall fail so 10 return and take up
their actual abode, domicile, dwelling-pace
aud habitation in this State on or before six
months next preceding such November cleo
ten, they shall be c0nclusively 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 qualified voters,
or ehall strike of their names from the reg
istrF il 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 owledgment the sum of thirty
cents, and for indexing and record ding the aifi-
davits and owledgments thereto, the same
compensation as is allowed by law for index
ing and recording deeds, such cnsts to be paid
70 said clerks by the comm lseioners 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 dul ~ GER
tlueo copy tneFeOI snail De EecetVaDte In evil
denoe in the same manner as a certified copy
of deed; false swearing in any such afjdav-
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 'sPer-
jury;" said officers Of registration shall re
quire the production of such afidavits duly
recorded, or a 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 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 9,
the time when he so removed, and when be
returned, and ell 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 Gorroborated 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 t0itheir sa abstraction 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 be shall not be entitled
to be registered as legal voter.