Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-07-31

said petition to attend at the hearing in person
or 10y counsel and whore the obicctof the pctl-
ton is to strike of the name of any person sum
mons shall also he issued for such person. which
shall bC served 10y the sheriff within the time
therein designated; and said several courts
shall have fun jurisdiction and power to review
the action of any board of officers OF r"glStra-
tion and to grant or withhold, Us ii may deem
lawful and proper the rcIict prayed Tor IN TN"
premises.
In determining whether any person who ap
piled to hc registered under the above fifth
clause of this section was not entitled
to he registered under said fifth clause, the
court shall require the board of officers of reg
iStratiOn complained against to produce IN"
written application prepared and submitted 10y
such person at the time he presented himself
for registration to said board of officers of reg
iStratiOn. and upon said written application
the court shall determine whether or not said
person, when he presented himself for rcglStra-
tiOn, complied with the requirements of said
fifth clause and if the court shall determine
that said written application, SO prepared and
submitted by said person. complied with the
requirements of said fifth clause. and that said
person was not disqualified under any other
provision of this Article of the Constitution to
bc registered upon the hooks of registry in
question, then the Court shall order said person
to he registered aS qualified voter, hut If the
court shall determine that said written appli-
cation of said person failed to comply with the
requirements of said fifth clause, or that said
person was in any other respect under this
Article of the Constitution disqualified to toe
registered upon the books of registry in qucS-
ton. then the court shall order that said per
son shall not he registered upon said books of
registry.
The court may enforce any order by attach
mcnt for contempt in said cases neither party
shall have any right of removal; exception
may he taken to any ruling of the court at the
hearing of said cases and an appeal shall lie
allowed to the Court of Appeals as in other
cases all such appeals shall he taken within
five days from the date of the decision com.
planned of, and shall hc heard and decided by
the Court of Appeals upon the original papers,
or otherwise. as the Court of Appeals may by
rule prescribe, as soon as may bc practicable.
The General Assembly shall have power t"
provide more fully by legislation not inconSiSt
ent with this section of this Article, for tn"
hearing and determination of all such cases.
SEC. >. ih,d be it FURTHER cnactcd by the M
Horty aforesaid, That the aforegoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution OF this state shall be at the next
General Election for members of the Gener-
al Assembly to be held in this State, submit
ted to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection. in pursuance
of the directions contained IN Article XIV of
the Constitution of this State, and at said
general election the vote on the said proposed
amendment shall be by ballot and upon
each ballot there shall be printe the words
"For the Constitutional Amendment and
Against the Constitution II Amen lment
as now prescribed by law, and imm rdiatcly
after said election due returns shall be m lte
to the Governor of the woe for ami against
said propose amen imcnt as directel by the
said Article XIV of the Constitution.
Approved February p 1913.
Now. THEREFORE, |, AUSTIN l.. CRorHERs,
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MNRYLlND, in
pursuance of the provisions of Section |, of
Article II of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, do hereby or Ter an direct that a
copy of said Act proposing an amen lment to
Section | of Article of the Constitution of
said State, be published in at least two news
papers in each of the counties of the State
and in three newspapers i'll the City of Bal
timore, one of shall be published in the Ger
man language, once a week for at least three
months preceding the next General Election
which election will be held on November ID
1909 at which election the said proposed
amendment shall be submitted, in the form
and manner prescribed by the General As
sembly, to the legal and qualified voters of
the State, for their adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
,-, of the State of Maryland.
SEAL Done at the City of Annapolis
- this LIST day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and nine.
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS
By tie Go"cyuor:
n WINSTON WILLIAMS.
Secretary of State. July 81