The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08

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 sald
two years and shall at the time OF his
application make affidavit before the
officers of registration that he is, or
that he is the husband of the person
who is the bona fde 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 neXi
proceeding his application.
No person not qualified under some
one of the above clauses shall be entlti-
to be registered as qualitie / 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, If
required, as hereinafter provided.
The affidavit of any applicants fo5
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 he }ta1 elgteen nun
dred and sixty nine, as aforesaid, or
! that he has become naturalized cit1-
zen of the United States between tina
| first day Of Januar yinan yeare lghteeD
| hur dred and sixty-ninesed the date OF
| the adoption of this hction CT this
| Article, as aforeraid, or is affidavit W
| 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 hum
| dred and sixty-nine, or that ne IS de-
| cendant of a person who has become
| a naturalized citizen of tie Z nlted
| between the first day of January IN the
year eighteen hundred and sixty mine
| and the date of the adoption of this sec
| ton of this Article, shall be 'prima iacle
| evidence Of any Of said facts SO sworn
I to.
A wilfully false statement upon the
part of any applicant for registration
| in relation to any of the matters afors-
said shall be per Jury, and punishable a.
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 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
| tretlon, but not later that the Tuesday
| next preceding the election, file a
| petition, verified by affidavit, in the
| Circuit Court for the county IN Which
| the cause of complaint arises, or it'the
cause of complaint arises in Baltimore
| City, in any court of common law Jur1s
diction in said city, setting forth the
| grounds of his application and asking
to have the action of the board OF OH
| GERS of registration corrected. Th,
court shall forthwith set the petition fol
| 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
| psrson or by counsel, and where the
| object of the petition is to strike off tht
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 tt
| grant or withhold, as it may deem law
full and proper, the relief prayed for i'll
the premises.
| In determining whether any person
| who applied to be registered under tho
| above fifth clause of this section was OF
| was not entitled to be registered under
| said fifth clause, the court shall require
the board of officers of registta tioH
| complained against to produce thu
| written application prepared and sucl
person at the time he presented hlmsel
for registration to said board of officers
of registration, and upon said written
application the court shall determine
whether or not said person. when ne
presented himself for registration, com
piled with the requirements of SAID
fifth clause; and if the court shall deter
mine that said written application, Sc
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
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 i'll question,
then the court shall order that said per
son shall not be registered upon said
books of registry.
The urt- may enforce any order by
attachment for contempt III 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, aud 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
practic; bic.
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 cf All such cases.
SEC 3 And he ii further enacted 10y
the authority aforesaid, That the afore-
going section hereby proposed as an