The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-29

therefor on the textbooks of the City OF
Baltimore or Of one of the counties IT
this State, has been such owner and so
assessed for two years next preceding
his application for registration. shalI
have paid and shall property for said
two years and shall at the time or ms
aoplication make affidavit before the
officers of registration that lie is, or
that he is the husband Of the person
who is the bona fde owner OF the
proDerty so assessed to him or to her,
as tie 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 entltl-
to be registered as qualities voter or
be entitled to vote. Every written ap-
plication TO be. registered, presented 10
the officers of registration by any per
son applying to be registered undeI 49e
above fifth clause, shall be carcla y
preserved by said officers Of registration
and shall be produced in any Court, II
required, as hereinafter provided
The affidavit Of any applicants tor
registration, duly made to the officers
of registration or in Court, that Ee'
the applicant, is person VINO was en-
titled to vote on or before the nTsL day
of January in he ltil elgteen hpn-
dred and sixty nine, as AFORESAID, or
that he has become natural!zed cltl-
zen Of the United States between tho
first day of jar uaryinan yeare lghteen
hundred and siXty-ninesed the date OF
the adoption of this hctlon OF ii Is
Article, as aforeraid, or is aftidaVltt 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 nun
dred and siXty-uine, or that he IS I de-
cendant of a person who has hEc9me
a naturalized citizen OF tie AtteS
between the first day of January II thf
veal eighteen hundred and sixty-2ine
and the date of the adoption of this sec
ton of this Article, shall be 'prlma FAC.
evidence of any Of said facts so sWo IL
to-
Ewilfully false statement upon the
part of any applicant for registration
in relation to any Of the matters sfeTe'
said shall be perjury, and punishable as
as perjury is punished by the law OF
this State.
ANY person who feels aggreved by
the action of any board of officers OF
Redistribution 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.
trBt1on, but not later that the Tuesday
next proceeding the election, file a
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county in whitl
| the cause of complaint arises, or II 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 70!
hearing and direct summons to be issu
ed requiring the board of officers o.
registration complained against in said
| petition to attend at the hearing il
person or by counsel, and where tht
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 thu
| time therein designated and said seVe
| al courts shall have full jurisdiction
| and power to review the action of any
board of officers of registration and t.
| grant or withhold, as it may deem law
| full and proper, the relief prayed for il
| the premises.
| In determining whether any person
| who applied to be registered under tn
above fifth clause of this section was o
| was not entitled to be registered unde
said fifth clause, the court shall requT
the board of officers of registration
| complained against to produce th
| written application prepared aud sucl
| person at the time he presented htmscl
for registration to said board Of officer
of registration, and upon said writer
| application the court shall determin
whether or not said person, when b
| presented himself for registration. com
piled with the requirements of sal
fifth clause: and if the court shall deter
mine that said written application, s
prepared and submitted by said person
complied with the requirements of sal
fifth clause, and that said person wa
not disqualified under any other pro
| vision of this Article of the COnstitu
ton to be registered upon the books O
| registry in question, then the C0uT
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 wit
the requirements Of said fifth cjau. {
or that said person was in any othc
respect under this Article Of the Cons
titution disqualified to be reEisteret
upon the books of registry III question
then the court shall order that said pc
son shall not be registered upon sal
books of registry.
The urt may enforce any order b
attachment for contempt in said case;
neither party shall have any right of II
m)val; exception may be taken to az,
ruling of the court at the hearing o
said cases and an appeal shall be al
lowed to the Court of Appeals rs i
other cases; all such appeals shall b
taken within five days from the date %
the decision complained of, and sha'
be heard and decided by the Ccur. e.
| Appeals up' the original p4pcr2, o
otherwise, as the Court Of Appeals IA
by rule prescribe, as suvA is may T.
| praCtiC. b ..
| The General Assembly shall h.9
power To provide more f"Iy bv lc4i>
,arion not inc nsi>f"n' VITA tits ~pcIiul
Of this Article, for IEc hcaGimg aGd dc
termination If all such cases.