The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-09-03


of registration or in Court, that 1",
the applicant, is person VINO was en-
titled to vote on or before the first day
of January in, the year eighteen nun
dred and siXty-nine, as aforesaid, or
that he has become natuTaIIZ q clLl-
zen 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 aforeraid, or his affidavit up
on information and belief that he is
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 a. de-
cendant of a person who has become
| a naturalzed citizen of tie United
between the first day of January in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty nine
and the date of the adoption of this sec
| ton of this Article, shall be 'pEima fac'e
evidence of any of said facts 50 sworn
to.
A wilfully false statement upon the
| part of any applicant for registration
in relation to any Of the matters atoT1-
said shall be perjury, and punlsDaole as
as perjury is punished by the law d
this State.
Any person who feels aggrleved 10y
the action of any board of officers OF
registratration in refusing to register
him asia qualified voter, Or in registering
any disqualified person, may at amy
time, either before or after the last ses
sion of the board of officers Of regis
-trstion, but not later that the Tuesday
next preceding the election, file
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
far he II
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 aud asking
to have the action of the board Of Off
GERS of registration corrected. The
court shall forthwith set the petition for
hearing and direct summons to bG lssu-
ed requiring the board Of officers Of
registration complained against ii said
petition to attend at the hearing in
person or by counsel. and where .be
object of the petition is TO strike of the
name of any person, summons shal!
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
ul 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 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, con-
piled with the requirements of said
fifth clause; and if the court shall deter
mine that said written application, 50
prepared and submitted by said person,
complied with the requirements Of said
fifth clause, aud 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 q
qualified voter, bot if the court shall |
determine that said written application |
of said person failed to comply with |
the requirements OF SAID Nth clause
or that SAID person was ID any other |
pect under TINS Article OF the Cons |
ttutlon dlsq1allned 10 be registered |
upon the DOCKS OF registry III question:, !
'heh lne court snail ofaeF lla' sara per |
son shall not be registered upon said |
books of registry.
Inc court may enforce any oIGoT by |
attachment for contempt III SAID eases; |
net her party shall have any right Of re
m wa; exception may DC taken to any
ruilhg III 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 snail be
taken WITHIN hVe days 1rOia the GATE 81
the decision complained o. ani snail
be heard and decided by the Court OF
Appeals upon the Original papers, or !
otherwise, as the Court OF Appeals may |