The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-22
is State. has been such owner and

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, Or
that be is the husband of the person
who is the bona f1de owner Of TIL"
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 mex
proceeding his application,
No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be entitl-
to be registered as qualifie voter or
be entitled to vote. Every written ap-
plication TO be registered, presented to
the officers of registration by any per-
son applying to be registered under abe
above fifth clause, shall be carefully
preserved by said officers of registration
and shall be produced in any Court, ii
required, as hereinafter provided.
The affidavit of any applicants for
registration, duly made to the officers
of registration or in Court, that he
the applicant, is person who was en-
titled to vote on or before the first day
of January in the I'&I elgteen hun
dred and sixty nine, as aforesaid, or
that he has become naturalized c!tl-
zen Of the United States between tb7
first day of Januaryinaa yeare lShteen
hur dred and sixty-ninesed the date OF
the adoption of this hction OF this
Article, as aforeraid, or is affidavit III
on information and belief that he is
descendant Of person who was en-
titled to vote On or before the first day
of January in the year eighteen hum
dred and sixty-nine, or that he is de-
cendant of person who has become
naturalized citizen Of tie United
between the first day of January IN the
year eighteen hundred and siXty-nlne
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 orr
to.
A wilfully false statement upon the
part of any applicant for registration
in relation to any of the matters afoTe-
said shall be peri ury, 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
registratratioD in refusing to register
him asa 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
TRITON, bat not later that the Tuesday
next proceeding the election, file
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county in which
the cause of complaint arises, or if 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 Off
GERS of registration corrected. The
court shall forthwith set the petition for
hearing and direct summons to be issu-
ed requiring the board Of officers OF
registration complained against in said
petition to attend at the hearing in
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 the
written application prepared and such
person at the time he presented himself
for registration 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, COM
piled with the requirements of said
fifth clause: and if the court shall deter
mine that said written application, s"
prepared and submitted by said person,
complied with the requirements of said
fifth clause, and 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 a
qualified voter, but if the court shall
determine that said written application
of said person failed to comply with
the requirements OF said fifth Clau e
or that said person was in any othar
respect under this Article of the Cons |
titulion disqualified to be registered |
upon the books of registry IL question, |
then the court shall order that said PEI |
son shall not be registered upon said i
books Of registry.
The C. urt may enforce any order by |
for contempt iii said cases; !
neither party shall have any right Of re
moval; exception may be .aken to any
ruling of the court at the hearing Of |
said cases and an appeal shall be al
lowed to the Court Of Appeals as i'll
other cases; all such appeals shall be
,aken within five days from the date Of
;he decision complained Of, and shall
be heard and decided by the Court of
Appeals upon the original papers, or
otherwise, as the Court of Appeals may
oy rule prescribe, as soon as may be
oractic; be.
The General Assembly shall have
power to provid' more fully by legis
alton not inconsistent with this section
# this Article, for the hearing and de-
il mil ailon all such eases
SEC 2. And be it fnrti:or eHa"ted By
he authority aforesaid, That The atore-
DING section hereby proposed us an