The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-09-24

property 80 assessed to him or to her,
as the case may be and that he or she
has been such owner for two years next
ding his application.
No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be entltl-,
to be registered as qualifie1 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 ahe
above fifth clause, shall be carefully
preserved by said officers Of registration
and shall be produced in any Court, if
required, as hereinafter provided.
The affidavit of any applicants for
registration, duly made to the officers
of registration or in Court, that be,
the applicant, is a person who was en-
titled to vote on or before the first day
of January in t he l'*1 elgteen hun
drea and sixty nine, as aforesaid, or
that he has become naturallzed eltl-
zen of the United States between the
first day of Januaryinan yeare lghteen
hundred and sixtY-ninesed the date OF
the adoption of this hction OF this
Article, as aforeraid, or is affidavltt 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
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 tacle
| 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 aggrleved by
| the action of any board Of officers OF
registratration 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
| tfstlon, but not later that the Tuesday
next preceding the election. file a
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
L
| 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
| registration complained against in said
| petition to attend at the hearing IL
person or by counsel, and where the
| object of the petition is to strike Oft 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, 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 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 clause
or that said person was in any other
respect under this Article of the Cons
titution disqualified to be registered
upon the books of registry in question,
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 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 in
other cases; all such appeals shall 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 .. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the afore
going section hereby proposed as an
to the Constitution Of this
State shall be at the next General
Election for members of the General
Assembly to be held in this State, sub
mitted to the legal and qualihed voters |
thereof for their ad option or rejection, |
in pursuance of the directions contain |
ed 10 Article XIV of the Constitution |
Of this State, and at said general election |