The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-08-06

3uu Shall pIS0NSOu III any SOullJ IL
required, as hereinafter provided.
The affidavit of any applicants for
registration, duly made to the officers
of registration or in Court, that he.
the applicant, is a person who was en-
of January in the year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-nine, as aforesaid, or
that he has become naturalized eiti-
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 si1ty-nine, or that he is de-
cendant of a person who has become
a naturalized citizen of tie United
between the first day of January in the
wear eighteen hundred and sixty-nine
and the date of the adoption of this sec
ton of this Article, shall be 'prima facie
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 of
registratration in refusing to register
| him asia qualified voter, OF in registering
any disqualified person, may at any
time. either before or after the last SEES
| sion of the board of officers of regis
| TRITON, but not later that the Tuesday
| next preceding the election, file a
petition, verified by affidavit, in the
| Circuit G ,urt 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 9th
| GERS of registration corrected. The
| cou.s shall forthwith set the petition for
| hearing and direct summons to be issu-
| ed recurring the board of officers Of
registration complained against in said
| petition to attend at the bearing in
| person or by counsel. and where the
object of the Leiition 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 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 dern law
| full and proper, the relief prayed for in
the premises.
| In determining whether any person
who applied to be registered ANGER the
| above fifth clause of this ST ction was OF
| was not entitled to be registered under
said fifth clause, the court shall require
the board of officers Of regist,a tion
| complained against to produce the
written application prepared and such
psEson 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 COM
| piled with the requirements of said
| fifth clause; and if the COURT shall deter
| mine that said written application, go
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 Consttu-
ton to be registered upon the books OF
registry in question, then the Court
| order said person to be registered as a
| qualified voter, brt if the court shall
| determine that said written application
| Of said person failed tG comSly with
the requirements. of said fftk clause
or that said person was III any other
respect under this Article Of the Cons
titution disqualified to be registere
upon the books of registry i'll question
then the court shall order that said per
son shall not be registered upon saiC
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 10 any
ruling of the court at the hearing O
said eases and an appeal shall be al
lowed to the Court Of Appeals as il
other cases; all such appeals shall be-
taken within five days from the date o
the decision complained of, and shall
be heard and decided by the Court OF
| Appeals upon the original papers, OF
otherwise, as the Court of Appeals may
by rule prescribe, as soon as may be
| practical e.
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. 2. 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
Election for members of the General
| Assembly 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 Jaw, and
Immediately after said election dae re-
turns 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 d, 1908,
NOW, THEREFORE, l, AUSTIN l.
CROTHER3, GOVERNOR OF THE
STATE OF MARYLAND, in puruance
of the provisions of Section l, of Article
II of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, do hereby order and direct
that copy of said Act proposing an "a
mendment to Section l of Article | of
the Constitution of said State, be pub
lished ia at least two newspapers in
each Of the counties of the State and
in three newspapers in the City of the
Baltimore, one Of which shall be pub
lished in the German language, once
week for at least three months proceed.
ing the next General Election, which.
election will be held on November 2G,Ci
1909 at which election the said prgpo-
ed amendment shall be submitted, in
the form and manner prescribed by the
General Assembly, to the legal and
qualified voters of the State, for sheit
adoption or rejection.
GIVEN under my hand and the
Great Seal of the State Of