The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-15

this State, has been such owner and so
assessed for two years next preceding
his application for registration. shall
have paid and shall property for said
two years and shall at the time OF his
application make affidavit before The
officers of registration that he is, OF
that he is the husband of the person
who is the bona flde owner Of the.
property so assessed to him or to her,
as the case may be and that he or she
has been such owner for two years next
preceed ding his application.
No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be entitl-
to be registered as qualifiel voter or
be entitled to vote. Every written ap
plication to be registered, presented to
son applying to be registered under abe
above fifth clause, shall be carefully
preserved by said officers of registration
required, as hereinafter provided.
The affidavit of any applicants TO"
registration, duly made to the officers
of registration or in Court, that be
the applicant, is person who was en-
Of January in he ltsI elgteen hun
dred and sixty-nine, as aforesaid, OF
that he has become natural:zed citi-
zen of the United States between tho
first day of Januarvinan yeare lghteeD
hur dred and sixty ninesed the date of
the adoption of this hction OF ills
Article. as aforeraid, or is affidavit NJ
on information and belief that he is
descendant Of a person who was en-
titled to vote on or before the first day
of January in the year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-nine, or that he is de-
cendant of a person who has become
naturalized citizen Of tie United
between the first day of January in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty nine
and the date of the adoption of this sec
ton of this Article, shall be 'prima facie
evidence of any of said facts SO sW oTn
to.
A wilfully false statement upon the
part of any applicant for registration
in relation to any of the matters atore-
said shall be perjury, and punishable as
as perjury is punished by the law OF
this State.
Any person who feels aggrleved BY
the action of any board of officers OF
registratration in refusing to register
him asia qualified voter, or in registering
any disqualified person, may at any
time, either before or after the last ses
sion of the board of officers Of regis
tret1on, but not later that the Tuesday
next preceding the election, file a
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county in which
the cause of complaint arises, or it the
cause of complaint arises in Baltimore
City, in any court of common law Juris
diction in said city, setting forth the
grounds of his application and asking
to have the action of the board of OIL
GERS of registration corrected. The
court shall forthwith set the petition for
hearing and direct summons to be lssu-
ed requiring the board of officers OF
Registration complained against in said
petition to attend at the hearing IL
person or by counsel, and where the
object of the petition is to strike off the
name of any person, summons shall
also be issued for such person, which
shall be served by the sheriff within the
time therein designated; and said sever
al courts shall have full Jurisdiction
and power to review the action of any
board of officers of registration and to
grant or withhold, as it may deem law
full and proper, the relief prayed for in
the premises.
In determining whether any person
who applied to be registered under the
above fifth clause of this section was or
was not entitled to be registered under
said fifth clause, the court shall require
the board of officers of registration
complained against TO produce thu
written application prepared and such
person at the time he presented himself!
for reg istration to said board Of officers
of registration, and upon said written
application the court shall determine
whether or not said person, when he !
presented himself for registration, con-
piled with the requirements of sale
fifth clause: and if the curt STALL deter
mine that said written application, So
and submitted by said person,
complied with the requirements of said
fifth clause, aud that said person was
not disqualified under any other pro-
vision of this Article of the Constitu- |
ton to be registered upon the books OF !
registry in question, then the Court |
order said person to be registered as d |
qualified voter, bot if the court shall |
determine that said written application |
Of said person failed to comply with |
The requirements of said fifth clause |
Or that said person was in any other |
>pect under this Article of the Cons
tuition disqualified to be registered |
upon the books Of registry i'll question,
hen the court shall order that said per
son shall not be registered upon saiG
books of registry.
The urt may enforce any order by
attachment for contempt in said cases;
1either party shall have any right OF re
noval; exception may be taken to any
'uling of the court at the hearing OF
laid cases and an appeal shall be al
owed to the Court Of Appeals rs in
other cases; all snch appeals shall be
aiken within five days from the date Of
be decision complained Of, and shall
'e heard and decided by the Court Of
Appeals upon the original papers, or
therwise, as the Court OF Appeals may
y rule prescribe, as soon US may be
ractic; be.
The General Assembly she'll have
over to provid" more tul Y by ]egis-
ltion not inconsistent with this section
f this Article, for the hearing and de
{ t all such eases
SEC 2, And be il further enacted by
he authority aforesaid, That the afore-
DING section hereby proposed as an