The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-11

said registers shall then sign his name
or initials Immediately under the last
name registered under each letter in
the book kept by him. SO that no new
name can be added without discovery.
The said Board of Registry shall keep.
on blanks to be provided for that pur.
pose by the Board of Supervisors of
Elections, an alphabetical list of the
names, addresses and color of all per-
/ sons registered, and separate list of
all persons refused registration, and
OF all persons whose names are erased
/ from the registry. In the City of Bal
/ timore, at the end of each session.
/ they shall deliver these lists to the
police officer on duty at the registra-
| ton office, and the list shall be deliv-
cred by the said officer to the Police
/ Board, and by the Police Board to the
| Board of Supervisors of Elections, in
1 the forenoon of the day following the
1 said sitting. The Board of Supervis-
! ors for the City of Baltimore shall
/ then cause such list to be printed in
/ handful form, in plain long primer
! type, and copies thereof posted with
/ in three days after each session, in
such manner that they may be easily
read, in at least ten prominent places
in each precinct. Nothing in this
Section 1G, or in the preceding Sec
ton ID as hereby re-enacted with
amendments, shall affect the registra-
ton in the counties heretofore made
under this Article nor require the
furnishing of new registry books in
the counties. nor in Baltimore City
for the supplemental registration for
; fhn ~ 1al il, 1uD1 h1tt
registry books now in existence shall
continue to be used as far as practi-
cable, and the provisions of said Sec
tions Is and 16 as hereby re-enacted
shall be applied only to registrations
hereafter to be made.
SEC. >. And be it further enacted,
That new Section be and the same
is hereby added to Article SO of the
Code of Public General Laws. title
Elections subtitle Registration"
to come in after Section %, and to be
known as Section % A, such new Sec
ton to read as follows:
% A. All persons who, prior to the
passage of this Act, shall have vaca-
ted or removed from, or have gone
with their parents from the place of
their actual abode, domicile, dwelling
place or habitation within this State,
and shall have taken a domicile,
dwelling place, abode or habitation
out of this State, shall be cnnclusively
presumed to have thereby intended
to abandon their legal residence in
this State, and to have surrendered
their right to registration as legal vo-
ters in this State, unless within thirty
days after the passage of this Act
they shall go in person before the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for the
county from which they shall have so
removed, or before the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, if
their removal shall have been from
said city, and make and acknowledge
before such Clerk an affidavit that
when they so removed they did not
intend to change their legal residence
within the State, but that they had
fixed purpose to return at definite
time, and that they intend to return
to this State and take up their actual
domicile and habitation therein, on
or before six months next preceding
the Tuesday after the first Monday of
November next succeeding the max
ing of such affidavit The form of
such affidavit shall be substantially
as follows: State of Maryland--
County or City of Baltimore, set: |
hereby certify that on this--day
Of, 80, before the subscriber,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
County COR of the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, personally appeared
and made oath or affirmation
in due form of law, that up to the day
Of, or Whereabouts, he was an
actual resident and inhabitant of the
--election district Of
County, or of the-Precinct of the
Ward of the Legislative
District of Baltimore City, that on or
about the-day of--he re-
moved from his said domicile or place
of residence in said county or city,
and took up his domicile, habita ton,
dwelling place or abode out of the
State of Maryland, to wit lin here in
sert minute and definite description
of the place of abode, that when he
fixed and definite purpose to return
thereto by certain time, and that he
did not intend, by such removal, to
change his residence within the State,
or to return, or not to return to this
CtdUe. dts CIRCUMSTANCES UueTedIUef
might make expedient; sworn to be-
fore me signature of clerk, seal of
COURT; and unless the persons respec-
lively making such affidavits shall
actually return to this State. and
shall actually take up their abode,
domicile or habitation therein, six
months before the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November next sue
ceeding the making of said affidavit,
they shall be conclusively presumed
to have lost their legal residence
therein, and shall not be entitled to
registration therein as legal voters,
and the officers of registration shall
strike off their names from the regis
try if they be entered thereon; and
after the passage of this Act all per-
sons VIII shall vacate and remove from
the place of their actual domicile,
abode, dwelling place or habitation
out of this State, shall be conclusively
presumed to have lost their residence
in this State, and shall, in conse-
quence thereof, become disqualified
| to vote unless at or about the time of
such removal. or within ten days
thereafter, they shall go in person be-
fore 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
| IL H.