The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-08-20

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 year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-nine, as aforesaid, or
| that he has become naturalzed citi-
zen of the United States between the
| first day of January in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine and the date OF
the adoption of this section of this
Article, as aforeraid, or his affidavit up
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
| a 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 sworn
to.
A wilfully false statement upon the
part of any applicant for registration
in relation to any of the matters afore-
said shall be perjury, and punishable as
as perjury is punished by the law OF
this State.
Any person who feels aggTleved by
the action of any board Of officers OF
Redistribution in refusing to register
him, asia qualified voter, Or in registering
any disqualified person, may at any
time, either before or after the last SEES
sion of the board Of officers of regis
tretion, but not later that the Tuesday
next proceeding the election, file
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county III which
the cause of complaint arises, or il the
cause of complaint arises in Baltimore
City, in any court of common law Jurls
diction in said city, setting forth the
grounds of his application and asking
to have the action Of the board Df 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 Snail
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, so
prepared 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
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
respect under this Article of the Cons
titution disqualified to be registered
fhnh n@ l1ac e
then the court shall order that said per
son shall not be registered upon said
books of registry.
The court may enforce any order by
attachment for contempt in said cases;
neither party shall have any light of re
mDvai; exception may be taken 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 in
other cases; all such appeals snail be
taken within five days from the date of
the 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
by rule prescribe, as soon as may be
practicable.
The General Assembly shall have
power to provide more fully by legis-
lation not inconsistent with this section
of this Article, for the hearing and de-
termination of all such cases
SEC 3, And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the afore- !
going section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution Of this :
State shall be at the next General .
Il ection for mem bers Of the General !
Assembly to be held in this State, sub !
mitted to the legal aud qualified voters !
thereof for their al option OF rejection, !
IN pursuance Of the directions contain |
cd III Article XIV Of The Constitution |
of this State, and at said general election !
tbs vote on the said proposed amend !
ment shall be by ballot, and upon each
baflpt there Shall be printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment"
and Against the Constitutional Amend !
ment" as now prescribed by law, and
after said election due re-
urns shall be made to the Governor Of
he vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said
articite XIV of the Constitution.
Approved February %, 1903
NOW, THEREFORE,. /, AUSTIN L.
jROTHERS, GOVERNOR OF THE