Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20
PROCLAMATION.

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year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine
or that he is a descendant Of a person
who has become a naturalized citizen o
the United States between the first da,
of January in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine and the date Of the adop
tion of this section of this Article, shall
be prima facie evidence Of any of sale
facts so sworn to.
A wilfully false state nent upon the
part Of any application for registration
in relation to any Of the matters afore
said shall be perjury, and punishable a.
perjury IS punished by the laws o
this state
Any person who feels aggrieved by
the action Of any board OF officers o.
/ registration in refusing to register hin
as a qualified voter, or 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 preced
ing the election, file a petition, verified
by affidavit, in the Circuit Court for the
county in which the cause Of complaint
arises, or, if the cause Of complaint
arises in Baltimore City in any court Of
common law Jurisdiction in said city
setting forth the grounds Of his applica
tion and asking to have the action Of
the board Of officers Of registration cor
reeted. The court shall forthwith sci
the petition for hearing and direct sum
mons to be issued requiring the boart
Of officers of registration complained
against in said petition to attend at the
hearing in person or by counsel, and
where the object Of the petition is t,
strike off the name of any person, sum
mons shall also be issued for such per
son, which shall be served by the sheriff
within the time therein designated; ant
said several courts shall have full juris
| dietion and power to review the actor
of any board of officers Of registration
and to grant OF withhold, as it may deem
lawful aud proper. the relief prayed fol
in the premises.
In determining whether any persoi
who applied to be registered under tn
above fifth clause was or was not en-
titled to be registered under said fiftl
clause, the court shall require the boart
of officers Of registration compliance
against to produce the written applica
ton prepared and submitted by suel
person at the time be presented himsel
for registration to said board Of officer.
of registration, and upon said writer
application the court shall determine
whether or not said person, when hi
presented himself for registration, com
piled with the requirements of said fiftl
clause and if the Court shall determin,
that said written application, so prepar
ed and submitted by said person, com
piled with the requirements of said fiftl
clause, and that said person was not dis
qualified under any other provision OIL
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 a qualified
voter, but il the court shall determine
that said written application OF said per
son failed to comply with the require
ments of said fifth clause, or that said
person was in any other respect under
this Article Of the Constitution disqual
flied to be registered upon the books Of
registry in question, then the court shall
order that said person shall not be reg,
istered 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 allowed to
the Cou 1T 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 ant
decided by the Court Of Appeals upoI
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 pow
er to provide more fully by Legislation
not inconsistent with this section of thi.
Article, for the hearing and determine
ton of all such cases.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the afore
going section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution Of thu.
State shall be at the next General Elec
ton for members of the General Assem-
bly, to be held in this State, submitted K
the legal and qualified voters thereof fol
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
Of the directions contained in Article
XIV of the Constitution of this State
and at said general election the vote on
the said proposed amendment shall be
by ballot, and upon each ballot there
shall be printed the words For the Con
stitutional Amendment" and Against
the Constitutional Amendment as nov
prescribed by law, and Immediately af
ter said election due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote fol
and against said proposed amendment
as directed by the said Article XIV oi
the Constitution.
Approved February %, 1908.
NOW, THEREFORE. |, AUSTIN l.
+ CROTHERS, GOVERNOR OF THE
| STATE OF MARYLAND, in pursuance
of the provisions Of Section l, of Article
IA of the Constitution Of the State o.
Maryland, do hereby order and direct
that copy Of said Act proposing al
amendment to Section l of Article l Of
1 the Constitution of said State, be pub
l lished in at least two newspapers il
ca h of the counties of the State and il
three newspapers in the City Of Balti
more, one of which shall be published il
the German language, once week TO
at least three months preceding the mex
I General Election, which election will b.
held on November 2nd, 1909, at which
election the said proposed amendmen
shall be submitted. in the form and man
ner prescribed by the General Assembly
to the legal aud qualified voters Of tn,
State for their adoption or rejection.
GIVEN under my hand an,
the Great Seal Of the Stat,
(SEALl. of Maryland. Done at tn,
City of Annapolis, this Is
day Of July, one Thousand
niue hundred and nine.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS
1 By the Governor
n. WINSLoW WILLIAMS,
Secretary of State.