Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-29

preserve order and enforce obedience to his
lawful commands at or around bis place OF
TO keep the access TO such place
open and unobstructed; to prevent and sup
press riots, tumulf, violence aud disorder, and
all other improper practices at, around or
near 20 his place Registration tending to in-
timidation or to the obstruction of the work
of registration, or the revision of the regis
tration, and 20 protect and keep safe the reg
istries Of voters hereinafter referred 10 while
in his custody and possession; be may compel
the presence of witnesses before him while sit
ing as an officer OF registration for all pur-
poses connected with the performance of the
duties of his office by summons and attachment
he NAV while sitting as such officer OF regis
tration commit Tor trial any person commit
ting At or around his place ofregistration any
offense forbidden By this article; be shall
have the power to issue any OF said summons,
attachments or commitm ents when sitting In
any county of this State to the sheriff of said
county or 10 any constable thereof; all such
processes shalt be served by said respective
officers in the same manner as II they were is
sued BY the Judge of a court of record having
jurisdiction Of the subject 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 it is
or NAV be by law provided that he shalt 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-place or habitation within this State, and
shall have taken a domicile, dwelling-place,
abode or habitation out Of this State, shall be
conclusively presumed to have thereby in
tended to abandon their legal residence in this
State, and to have surrendered their right TO
registrati ton as regal voters in the State unless
within thirty days after the passage OF this
act thew shall 60 in person before the clerk 0 {
the circuit court for the county from which
they shall have so removed and make and
acknow 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 10 this state and to take up their
actual domocie 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 affidavits shall ac-
tually return to 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 hum
dred and ninety, they shall be conciusively
presumed to have lost their legal residence
therein anc shall not be entitled To registration
therein rs 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 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, 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 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
affidavits 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
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 th ereon; 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 nowledgment the sum of thirty
cents, and for indexing and recording the aft
a rI.al,~
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 afidavits 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 Ave days fron the date OF
the acknowledgment thereto, and dul y GER
tilted copy thereof shall be receivable in evil
dence in the same manner as a certified copy
of deed; false swearing in any such afidav-
it's 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 affidavits 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
IS qualified voter has los his residence by
reason of his removal from the State as here
inbefore mentioned, and they may also 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 !,
the time when he so removed, and when he
returned, and all other pertinentfact and cir
cumstances touching the right OF such person
to be registered, and they may require the
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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 it 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 be shall not be entitled
TO be repiafered a. a lanal uofar