The Democratic advocate., 1909-10-08

the action of any board of officers of
registration in refusing to register
him as qualified voter, or in regis
tering any disqualified person, may
at any time, either before or after
the last session of the board of Of
ficers of registration, but not later
than the Tuesday next preceding
the election, file a petition, verified
by affidavit, in the Circuit Court for
the county in which the cause of COM
plant arises, or, if the cause of COM
plaint arises in Baltimore City, in any
court of common law jurisdiction in
said city, setting forth the grounds
of his application and asking to have
the action of the board OF officers OF
registration corrected. The court
shall forwith set the petition for
hearing and direct summons to be is
sued requiring the board of officers
of registration complained against IN
said petition to attend at the hear
ing in person or 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 officers 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 applied to be registered under
the above fifth clause of this section
was not entitled to be registered
under said fifth clause, the court shall
require the board of officers of regis
tration complained against to produce
the written application prepared and
submitted by such person at the time
he presented himself for registration
to said board of officers of registra-
ton, and upon said written applica-
ton the court shall determine wheth-
er or not said person, when he pre-
sented himself for registration, COM
piled with the requirements of said
fifth clause; and if the court shall de-
termine that said written application,
so prepared and submitted by said
person, complied with the require
ments of said fifth clause, and that
said person was not disqualified un-
der any other provision of this Article
of the Constitution to be registered
upon the books of registry in ques-
ton, then the Court shall 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 re-
uuirements of said fifth 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
court shall order that said person
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 removal; exception may be
taken to any ruling of the court at
the hearing of said cases and an ap
peal shall be allowed 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 pre-
scribe, as soon as may be practic-
able.
The General Assembly shall have
| pOW0T W lu11y ny 1OSAS-
lation not inconsistent with this sec
ton of this Article, for the hearing
and determination or all such cases.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted
by the authority aforesaid, That the
aforegoing section hereby proposed
as an amendment to the Constitution
of this State shall be at the next Gen
eral Election for members of the Gen
eral Assembly to be held in this State,
submitted to the legal and qualified
voters for their adoption or rejec-
ton, in pursuance of the directions
contained in Article XIV of the Con-
stitution of this State, and at said
general election the vote on the said
proposed amendment shall be by bal
lot, and upon each ballot there shall
be printed the words For the Consti-
tutional Amendment" and Against
the Constitutional Amendment as
now prescribed by law, and immed1-
ately after said election due returns
shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said
Article XIV of the Constitution.
Approved February 25, 1908.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, AUSTIN Z.
CROTHERS, GOVERNOR OF THE
STATE OF MARYLAND, in pursu-
ance of the provisions of Section 1,
of Article IA of the Constitution of
the State of Maryland, do hereby ord
er and direct that a copy of said Act
proposing an amendment to Section
1 of Article 1 of the Constitution of
said State, be published in at least
two newspapers in each of the coun-
ties of the State and in three news
papers in the City of Baltimore, one
of which shall be published in the
German language, once a week for at
least three months preceding the next
General Election, which election will
be held on November End, 1909, at
which election the said proposed
amendment shall be submitted, in the
form and manner prescribed by the
General Assembly, 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
of Maryland. Done at the
City of Annapolis, this 1st
(SeaI.) day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and nine.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS.
By the Governor:
N. WINSLOW WILLIAMS,
Secretary of State.
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