The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-01

this State, has been such owner and so
assessed for two years next preceuic&
his application for registration. shall
have paid and shall property tor s2to
two wears and shall at the time Of his
application make affidavit before the
officers. of registration that he IS, or
that Re is the husband Of the person
who is the bona f1de 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
proceeding his application.
No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be entitl-
to be registered az qualified 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 1he
above fifth clause. shall be carefully
preserved by said officers of registration
and shall be produced in any Court #
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 VINO was en-
titled to vote on or before the first day
of January in he lf&1 elgteen nun
dred and sixty nine, as aforesaid, or
that he has become paturaliGed c'tI-
zen of the United States between th7
first day of Januaryinan yeare lghteen
hui dred and sixty-ninesed the date o.
the adoption of this hction of this
Article, as aforeraii, or is affidavit up
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 hun
dred and sixty-nine, or that he Is a de-
cendant Of a person who has Income
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 tacie
evidence Of any Of said facts 50 sW oIn
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 aggr'eved 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
trBt1on, but not later that the Tuesday
next preceding 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 Jurls
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
r 3gistration complained against in said
petition to attend at the hearing ii
p ,rson 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
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
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 q
qualified voter, bet 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 i'll any other
respect under this Article of the Cons
titution disqualified TO be registered i
upon the books of registry in question,
then the court shall order that saj3 per
son shall not be registered upon said !
books of registry.
The curt may enforce any order by !
attachment for contempt in said cases. |
neither party shall have any right of re |
moval; 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 il
other cases; all such appeals shall be
taken within five days from the date of,
the decision complained of, and shalt
be heard and decided by the Court of
Appeals upon the origina. papers, or
otherwise, as the Court of Appeals may
by rule prescribe, as soon as may be
practical e.
The General Assembly shall have
power to provide more fully by icgis-
Iation not inconsistent with this section |
Of this Article, for the hearing and de
ttrniratI"n al such case.
SEC 2, And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the afore-
going section hereby proposed as an