Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-06
PROCLAMATION.


year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,
or that he is a descendant Of person
who has becou e a naturaIized citizen Of
the Unitfd States between the first day
Of January IN the year eighteen hundred
ed sixty-nine aud the date Of the adop-
tion Of this section Of this Article, shall
be prima facie evidence Of any Of said
facts so sworn to.
a wilfully false state ment upon the
part Of any application for registration
in relation to any of the matters afore-
aid shall be perjury, and punishable as
perjury is punished by the laws of
this state.
Any person who feels aggrieved by
the action Of any board of officers Of
registration in refusing to register him
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 proceed
ing the election, file 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-
ton and asking to have the action of
the board Of officers Of registration cor
rected. The court shall forthwith set
the petition for hearing and direct sum
mons to be issued requiring the board
Of officers Of registration complained
against in said petition to attend at the
nearing In p-is0u or by counsel, aud
where the object of the petition IS to
strike of the name Of any person. sum
nous sha also be issued for such PEI
son, which shall be served by the sheriff
within the time therein designateds aud
said several courts shall have full juris-
diction and power to review the action
If any board " off icers Of registration
and to grant or withhold, as it may deem
awful aud proper, the relief prayed for
in the premises.
In determining whether any person
whe applied to be registered under the
above fifth clause was or was not en-
titled to be registered under said fifth
clause, the court shall iequire the board
# Officers of registration complained
iust to pr duce The written applica-
tau prepared and submitted by such
person at the time he presented himself
registration to said board of officers
gistlation, and upon said written
plitatiOH the court shat determine
neither or not said person, when he
seitfd himself for registration, COM
piled with the requirements Of said fifth
= ause; a 1d il the Court shall determine
hat said written application so prepar-
ed and submitted by said p rSon, com
pied with the requirements of said fifth
clause, aud that said person was not dis
qualified under any other provision of
his Article If the Constitution to be
egisterrd upon the books of registry in
question, then the Court shall orde said
person C. 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
meuts Of SAID fifth clause, or that sid
PRISON was in any other respect under
this A tlele of The Constitution disquai-
fed to be registered upon the books OF
registry in question, then the court shall
order that So d person shall rot be reg
istered upon said books of r gistrf
The court may enforce any o,der by
attachment for contempt ia sa d cases /;
neither party shall have any right Of re-
movai exception may be taken t, any
rnling of the court at the hearing Of SAID
cases and an appeal shall be- allowed to
the Cou 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 prescribe,
as soon as may be practicable.
The tieneral Assembly shall have pow
er to provide more fully by legislation
not inconsistent with this section of this
Article, for the hearing and determine
ton Of all such cases.
SEC. ?. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the afore-
going section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this
State shall be at the next General Elee-
ton for me mbers Of the General Assem-
bly, to be held in this State, submitted to
the legal aud qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
If the directions contained in Article
XIV of the Constitution of this State,
aud 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 s. For the Con
stitutional Amendment and Against
the Constitutional Amendment" as now
prescribed BY law, and Immediately af-
ter said elect m due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for
and against said proposed amendment,
as directed BY the Saia Article XIV of
the Constitution.
Approved February 25. 1908.
NOW, THEREFORE,, |, AUSTIN l..
CROTHERS, GOVERNOR OF THE
STATE OF MARYLAND, in pursuance
Of the provisions If Section !, of Article
II Of the Constitution of the State If
Wars and, do hereby order and direct
that copy of said Act proposing an
amendment to SeCtioa of Article of
the Constitution of said State, be pub
liShed in at least two newspapers in
ca Ii Of the counties Of the State and in
three newspapers in the City of Balti-
more, one of which shall be published in
the German language, once 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
ehdt NC AubhllNteHr III tlit iotil duu i+idh-
ner prescribed by the General Assembly,
to the legal and qualified voters o. the
State for their adoption or rejection.
GIVEN under my hlnd and
the Great Seal Of the State
(SEAL). OF Maryland Done at the
City of Annapolis, this LIST
day Of July, one thousand
niLe hundred aud nine.
AUSTIN L. CROrHERS
By the G 1vernOr
n. wINSLoW WILLIAMS,