Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-09-03
PROCLAMATION.

year eighteen hundred and ) s,v ~, eile
or that he is a descendant Of nerso,i
who has become a uaturaliZed ethan os
the United States between the first 5o,
Of January In the year eighteen hundred
aud sixty-nine and the date Of the adsa,-
tion Of this section Of this Article, shah,
be prima facie evidence Of any Of said
facts so sworn to.
wilfully false state ment upon the
part Of any application for registration
in relation to any Of the matters afore-
said shall be perjury, and punishable as
perjury is punished by the laws Of
this state.
Any person who feels aggrieved by
the action Of any board Of officers Of
registration in refusing to register him
as a qualified voter, or in registering
any disqualified person, may at any time,
either before or after the last session Of
the board Of officers of registration, but
not later than the Tuesday next proceed
ling the election, file a petition, verified
by aft davit, 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 Jurisdiction in said city
setting forth the grounds Of his applica-
ton and asking to have the action Of
the board of officers Of registration cor
rected. The court shall forthwith set
the petition for hearing and direct sum
mons to be issued 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 t.
strike off the name Of any person, sum
mons shall also be issued for such per.
son. which shall be served by the sheriff
within the time therein designated and
said several courts shall have full juris-
diction and power to review the action
Of any board Of officers Of registration
and to grant or withhold, as it may deem
lawful aud proper, the relief prayed fol
In the premises.
In determining whether any person
who applied to be registered under the
above fifth clause was or was not en-.
titled to be registered under said fifth
clause, the court shall require the board
Of officers of registration complained
against to produce the written applica-
ton prepared and submitted by such
person at the time he presented himself
for registration to said board of officers
Of registration, aud upon said writer
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 determine
that said written application, so prepar
ed and submitted by said person, com
piled with the requirements of said tiftl
clause, and that said person was not dis
qualified under any other provision O
this Article Of the Constitution to bt
registered upon the books of registry il
question, then the Court shall orde sale
person to be registered as a qualified
voter, but If the court shall determine
that said written application Of said per
son failed to comply with the require
ments of said fifth clause, or that sale
person was in any other respect undei
/ this Article OF the Constitution disqual
flied to be registered upon the books o
registry in question, then the court shat
order that said person shall not be reg
3 istered upon said books Of registry.
The court may enforce any order b,
attachment for contempt in said cases
neither party shall have any right of re
moval exception may be taken to an,
ruling of the court at the hearing of sait
cases and an appeal shall be allowed t,
/ the Cou of Appeals as in other cases
all such appeals shall be taken within
/ five days from the date of the decision
complained of, and shall be heard an,
decided by the Court of Appeals upol
the original papers, or otherwise, as tn,
Court of Appeals may by rule prescribe
as soou as may be practicable.
The General Assembly shall have pow
er to provide more fully by Legislation
not inconsistent with this section of thi
Article, for the hearing and determine
ton Of all such cases.
1 SEC. 2. And be it further enacted b.
I the authority aforesaid, That the afore
going section hereby proposed as al
amendment to the Constitution of TIN
State shall be at the next General EleC
( tion for members of the General Assem-
/ bly, to be held in this State, submitted t
the legal and qualified voters thereof TO
their adoption or rejection, in pursuanc
Of the directions contained in Articl
/ XIV of the Constitution of this State
and at said general election the vote OIL
/ the said proposed amendment shall b
4 by ballot, and upon each ballot Their
shall be printed the words For the Con
stitutional Amendment and 'Agains
/ the Constitutional Amendment" as nov
prescribed by law, and Immediately af
/ ter said election due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote fol
and against said proposed amendment
as directed by the said Article XIV OF
the Constitution.
4 Approved February %, 1908.
NOW, THEREFORE, l, AUSTIN L.
I CROTHERS, GOVERNOR OF I'll f
/ STATE OF MARYLAND, in pursuance
of the provisions Of Section l. OF Article
{ IA OF the Constitution of the State of
! Maryland, do hereby order and direct
that copy of said Act proposing an
amendment to Section of Article / Of
4 the Constitution of said State, be pub
I lished in at least two newspapers in
ca h of the counties of the State and in
three news papers in the City Of Balti-
more, one Of which shall be published in
the German language, once a week for
at least three months preceding the next
4 General Election, which election Will be
held on November 2nd, 1903, at which
election the said proposed amendment
shall be submitted, in the form and man
ner prescribed by the General ASse mbly,
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
(SEAI), of Maryland. Done at the
City Of Annapolis, this list
day of July, one thousand
nie hundred and nine.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS.
By the Governor
n. WINSLOW WILLIAMS,
Secretary of State.