The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-08-27

The affidavit of auy applicants tor
registration, duly made to the officers
of registration or in Court, that he,
the applicant, is person who was en-
titled to vote on or before the first day
of January in the year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-nine, as aforesaid, or
that he has become naturaliZed citl-
zen of the United States between the
first day of January i'll the ! ear eighteen
hundred and siXty-nine and the date OF
the adoption of this section of IL is
Article, as aforeraid, or his affidavit up
on information and belief that he is a
descendant of person who was en-
titled to vote on or before the first day
of January in the year eighteen hun
dred and sixty@nine, or that he is de-
cendant Of person who has become
naturaliZed citizen Of tie United
between the first day of January In the
year eighteen hundred and slxty-nlne
and the date of the adoption Of this sec
ton of this Article, shall be 'prima tacle
evidence of any Of said facts SO sworn
to.
A wilfully false statement upon the
part of any applicant for registration
in relation to any of the matters afore-
said shall be perjury, and punishable as
as perjury is punished by the law OF
this State.
Any person who feels aggrleved by
the action of any board Of officers CT
REPRESENTATION in refusing to register
him asia qualified voter, Or in registering
any disqualified person, may at any
time, either before or after the last SEES
sion of the board of officers Of regis
trstion, but not later that the Tuesday
next proceeding the election, file
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
Circuit Court for the county IN which
the cause of complaint arises, or it the
cause of complaint arises in Baltimore
City, in any court of common law Juris
diction in said city, setting forth the
grounds of his application and asking
to have the action of the board OF OIL
GERS of registration corrected. The
court shall forth with set the petition for
hearing and direct summons to be 'ssu-
ed requiring the board 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 TO strike OF 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 sever
al 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 law
fui 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 or
was not entitled to be registered under
said fifth clause, the court shall require
the board of officers of registration
complained against to produce the
written application prepared and such
person at the time be 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. COM
piled with the requirements of said
fifth clause; and if the court shall deter
mine that said written application, 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 pro-
vision of this Article of the Constitu-
ton to be registered upon the books of
registry in question, then the Court
order said person to be registered as
qualified voter, bot if the court shall
determine that said written application
of said person failed to comply with
the requirements of said fifth clause,
or that said person was in any other
al e
titution disqualified to be registered
upon the books of registry in question,
then the court shall order that said per
son shall not be registered upon said
books of registry.
The court may enforce any order by
attachment for contempt III said cases;
neither party shall have any right Of re
mDva!; exception may be taken to any
ruling Of the court at the hearing Of
said cases and an appeal shall be al
lowed to the Court of Appeals as in
other cases; all such appeals shall be
taken within five days from The date of
the decision Implanted 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
practices be.
The General Assembly shall have
power to provide more fully by legis- |
lation not inconsistent with this section
of this Article, for the hearing and de- |
termination Of all such cases
SEC 3. And be it further enacted by |
the authority aforesaid, That the afore- |
going section hereby proposed AS an |
amen iment to the Constitution of this i
state shall be at the next General |
Election for members of the General |
to be held in this State, sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters |
thereof for their al option or rejection, !
in pursuance of the directions contain
ed in Article XIV of the Constitution |
of this State, and at said general election |
tbs vote on the said proposed amend
ment shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment"
and "a gainst the Constitutional Amend
ment" as now prescribed by law, and
mme 'liately after said election due re-
urns shall be made to the Governor Of
he vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said
Article XIV of the Constitutions
Approved February 81, 1903
NOW, THEREFORE,. /, AUSTIN l..
JROTHERS, GOVERNOR OF THE