Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-08-28

have the power to issue any Of said summons,
attachmen Is or commitments when sitting IN
any county Of this State 70 the sheriff OF said
county or 10 any constable thereof; all such
processes shall be served BY said respective
officers in the same manner as u they were Is
sued by the judge of court OF record having
jurisdiction Of the sulject mat tier or by JUS
tice OF the peace exercising police powers
within such respective Jurisdictions; the sheriff
or any constable in any county 10 this state
who shall serve any Of said processes shall re-
ceive the same fees and in like manner as II Is
or NAV be by Law provided that he shat 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 oy 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 eut of this State, shall be
couclusivsly presumed to have thereby in
tended to abandon their legal residence Ia this
State, and to have surrendered their right 20
registr ton as ,egal voters In the State unless
within thirty DAYS after the passage Of this
act thew shall 90 in person before the clerk OF
the circait 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 a definite time, aud they intended TO
return to this State and TO take up their
actual domocile or habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tuesday
after the frst Monday OF November, eighteen
hundred and ninety; and unless the person
respectively making such affidavits shall ac-
tualiy return TO this State and shalt actually
take up their abode, domiciie 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 to have lost their legal residence
therein and shall not be entitled 10 registration
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 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 al 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, If
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 I;
and if the persons making such
aifidavits shall fail so TO return aud 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 thereon; the
clerk before whom such affidavit shall be
made, shall retain, indey and record the same,
and shall be entitled to demand and receive
for each acknowledgment the sum of thirty
| cents, and tor indexiog and recording the affi-
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 Eve days froIn the date OF
the acknowledgment thereto, and a duly GER
titled copy thereof shall be receivable in evil
dence in the same manner as certified copy
of deed; false sw caring in any such atidav-
its shall be deemed to be perjury, and shall be
punishable perjury is by the Code of Pub.
lie General Laws, article twenty-seven, title
"Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Per.
jury;" said officers of registration shall re
quire the production of such affidavits duly
| recorded, or duly certified copy thereof in
all cases where they shall have reason 10 SUI :
pect that the person applying to be registered
as a 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 e
the time when he so removed, and when he
returned, and all other pertinent facts 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 Lorroborated by independent
evidence if in their discretion they shall think
proper; and ii in answer to their questions or
upon testimony produced before them it shall
appear to their sa tisfaction 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.