Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-04

tings. the power OF Justice of the peace TO /
preserve order and enforce obedience to his /
lawful commands At or arour his place o l
registration; 20 keep the atcess to such place |
open and unobstrucied; 70 prevent and sup |
press riots, tumult violence aud disorder, and \
all other improper practices at, around or 4
near 20 bis place Of registration tending 10 IN i
timidation or 20 the obstruction OF the work !
OF registration, or the revision OF the regis
tratiou and to protect and keep safe the reg Il
istries Of voters hereinafter re ferred TO while L
in his custody and possession; be may compel /
the presence oil witnesses before him while sit Il
ting as an officer Of registration tor 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 for trial any person commit
ting at or around bis place ofregistration any \
offenss forbd den BY this article; he shall /
have the power 20 issue any Of said summons,
attachments Or commitments when sitting 10 1
any county of this State 20 the sheriff OF said 4
county or 10 any constable thereof; all such !
processes shall be served by said respective 4
officers in the same manner as It thew were IS 4
sued bY the judge of a court OF record having /
jurisdiction OF the sus ject matt or oy las- /
tice OF the peace exercising police powers
within such respective jurisdictions; the sheriff \
any constable in any clunty in this tate I
who shall serve any Of said processes shall re- 4
ceive the same fees and ia like manner as Il Is /
or NAV be by law provided that he shalt re- I
ceiye 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 tne
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
conclusiveiy presumed 10 have thereby IN
tended to abandon their legal residence IN this
State, and to have surrendered their right TO !
registration as legal voters in the State unless /
within thirty days after the passage OF this 4
act theY shall go in person before the clerk O 4
the circuit court for the county from which !
they shall have Sc removed and make and I
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, and they intended to
return 10 this state aud TO take up their
actual domocile or habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tuesday
after the first Monday % Move mber, eighteen
hundred and ninety; and unless the person
respectively making such atfidavits 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 hun
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 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. dweling-pIace or habi-
statiOn 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 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 and acknowledge before him an atfida-
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 if the persons making such |
affidavits shall fail SO to return and take up |
their actual abode, domicile, dwelling-place |
and habitation ia 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 s tate, and the officers of registration |
shall refuse to register them 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 acknowledgment the sum of thirty |
cents, and for indexing and recording the affi- |
davits and acknow Judgments thereto, the same !
compensation as is allowed by law for index |
ing and recording deeds, ouch costs to be paid |
ri 4t
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 Y GER
titled copy thereof shall be receivable ia evil
dence in the same manner as certified copy
of deed; false sw caring in any such atiday-
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 ftPer-
jury;" said officers of registration shall re.
quire the production of such sffdavits 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
as qualified voter has lost 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 e,
the time when he so removed, and when he
returned, and all 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 Lorroborated by ind ependent
evidence il 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 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.