The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-06

jSde owner OF the property 50 assessed to him or
to her, as the case may be. and that he or she
has been such owner for two years next preced-
ing his application
No person not qualified Under some one of the
above clauses shall be entitled be registered
qualified voter or be entitled to vote. Every
written application to be registered, presented to
the officers of registration by any applying
to be registered under the 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 ofany application for registration,
duly made to the officers of registration or in
Court. that he, the applicant. is a person who
was entitled to vote on or before the first day of
January in the year eighteen hundred and sixty
nine, as aforesaid, or that he has become a
naturalized citizen of the United States between
the first day of January in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty.nine and the date of the
adoption of this section of this Article, as aiore-
said, or his affidavit upon information and belief
that he is a descendant of person who was en-
titled to vote on before the first day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. or
that he is a descendant of a person who has be-
come naturalzed citizen of the United States
between the first day OF January in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and the date of
the adoption OF this section of this Article shall
be prima tacie evidence of any of said facts SO
sworn to.
wilfully false statement upon the part of any
applicant for registration in relation any of the
matters aforesaid shall be perjury, and punish
able as perjury is punished by the laws of this
State.
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any board of officers of registration in refusing to
register him as qualified voter, 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 preceding the election, file petit
ton verified by affidavit, in the Circuit Court for
the county in which the cause of complaint
arises or if the of complaint arises in Bati-
more City. in any court of common law juris-
diction in said city. setting forth the grounds
his application and asking to have the action of
the board of officers of registration corrected.
The court shall forthwith set the petition for
hearing and direct summons to be issued requir-
ing the board of officers of registration COM
planned against in said petition attend at the
hearing in person 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 several
courts shall have full Jurisdiction and power to
review the action OF any board of registration and
to grant or withhold, as it may deem lawful and
proper, the relief prayed for in the premises
In determining whether any person who ap-
piled to be registered under the above fifth clause
of this section was not entitled to be
registered under said fifth clause. the court shall
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planned against to produce the written appli
cation prepared and submitted by 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 complied with the re-
quirements of said fifth clause and if the court
shall determine that said written applca ton, so
prepared and submitted by said person, complied
with the requirements of said fifth clause, and
that said person was not disqualified under any
other provision OF this Article of the Constitution
to be registered upon the books of registry in
question, then the Court shall order said person
to be registered as qualified voter, but if the
court shall determine that said written applica
ton of said person failed 10 comply with the re-
quirements ofsaid filth clause or that said person
was In any other respect under this Article of the
Constitution disqualified to be registered upon
the books of registry in question, then the courts
shall order that said person shall be registered
upon said books of registry.
The court may enforce any order By attach
ment tor contempt in said cases; neither party
shall have any right OF removal; exception may
be taken to any ruling OF the court at the hear
ing OF said cases and an appeal shall be allowed
to the Court of Appeals 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. otherwise as the Court Of
Appeals may by rule prescribe, as soon as may be
practicable.
The General Assembly shall have power to pro-
vide more FIJI by legislation not inconsistent
with this section OF this Article. for the hearing
and determination of all such cases
SEC. Q. And be 1t further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the.aforegoing section
hereby proposed as amendment to the Con-
stitution of this State shall be at the
Election for members OF the General Assembly
to be held in this State submitted to the legal