Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-09-16
NEW REGISTRATION.


Nhat CONSTITUTES Restdence-The Duty of
Registers &C.,
We were In error yesterday 10 stating
that there viii be an entirely new regis
tration In the State this year. This onIy
applies TO Baltimore city aud not to the
counties Our article was taken prfnci-
paily from local In the Baltimore San
and We took It for granted that = regis
tTation law that was applicable to Balti-
more city, also applied to the counties IN
the main. In the counties only those
persons who were NOT on the registration
books at the election of 1889 need regis
ter anew. Persons who have moved out
OF the precinct, district or county in
which they are registered. must transfer
their registration as explained Ia nara
graphs V. and vi The law Is so cumber.
some and so implicated, that II would
take six Philadelphia lawyers TO under
stand 1t. Think OF a registration law
that makes 80 octave pages, with 166 sec.
tons. 1t appears that the most impor-
tant laws la which the masses OF the neo.
pie are interested. are generally the most
complicated. For the Information of
those conc srned we publish from the
law
WHAT CONSTITUTES RESIDENCE.
Ordinarily persons residence, at any
particular time, is where he Is then In the
habit of sleeping, and this rule was con-
firmed by the legislature of 1890, which
attempted, whether Constitutionally or
not, to reduce the exceptions to this rule
to minimum. Under that legislation.
persons who take up their ABIDE outside
the State, or in the State outside of the
county, or the city In which they former
ly resided, can only retain their residence,
and their right to vote. by making certain
aftidavits before the Clerk OF the Circuit
Court OF the County. or of the Superior
Court OF Baltimore City, and having
these sffidavits acknowledged and record
ed by said Clerk within ten days after
they have removed or prior to May 8 1890.
Oh course this does not mean that q per-
son who boards In the country during the
summer. or who for one. two or three
or four months may be temporarily en-
ployed In any other State and, therefore,
sleeps there, has lost his residence in the
State. But 1t does mean, that any person
who moves his family, or without II, and
takes up an actual home In any other
place, leaving his home In his former
place OF residence, loses his right to reg
lister and vote IN that former place OF
residence, even, although he may have
retained his intention of returning to auch
place of residence, In the near or remote
future.
THE DUTY OF REGISTERS.
The law makes It the duty of the
officers of registration, at the September
sittings, to 60 carefully over the entire
list Of names as then registered, and to
mark the names of all persons who from
Their own information. or from the infor-
nation furnished them by others they
have reason to believe should be stricken
of. The names thus marked are to be
copied upon list which Is to be kept
publicly displayed, and the officers Of
registration are required to send through
the sheriff Of the county notices to be
served upon the persons whose names are
marked for striking of, requiring them
to appear before them, and their October
sitting and show cause why their names
should not be stricken OF. Duplicate
copies of these notices are to be sent by
mail. According to the language of the
Act of 1890, on the Friday of October sit
tings, IL no sufficient cause has been
shown why these names should not be
stricken off, It Is the duty of the officers
of registration to strike them off, as how
ever the registrars are not to sit on any
Friday In October, the day upon which
this stTicking-off Is to be done seems to
be left doubtful by the Act