before the Tuesday after the first Monday in November next succeeding the making of said affidavit they shall be conclusively presumed to have lost their legal residence therein and shall not be entitled to registration therein as legal voters, and the officers of registration shall strike off their names from the registry if they be entered thereon; and after the passage of the act of 1901, chapter 2, all persons who shall vacate and remove from the place of their actual domicile, abode, dwelling place or habitation within this State, and shall take up a domicile, abode, dwelling place or habitation out of this State, shall be conclusively presumed to have lost their residence in this State, and shall in consequence thereof become disqualified to vote unless at or about the time of such removal or within ten days thereafter, they shall go in person before the clerk of the circuit court for the county from which they shall so remove or before the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if such removal be from said city, and shall make and acknowledge before him an affidavit declaring that notwithstanding such removal from their domicile, abode, dwelling place or habitation they do not intend thereby to change their legal residence, but that they have a fixed and definite purpose to return to this State on or before six months preceding the next succeeding election in November. The form of such affidavit shall be as follows: State of Maryland, (city or county) of -sct: I hereby certify that on this day of before the subscriber, clerk of the circuit court for county, (or superior court of Baltimore city) personally appeared and made oath (or affirmation) in due form of law, that on or about the he vacated and removed from his habitation, dwelling place, domicile or abode, in the day of precinct of the ward in the election district legis of county, (or of the lative district of Baltimore city) and took up his abode out of the State (here insert particular designation of such new abode by election district, precinct, ward, street and number whenever practicable); that notwithstanding such removal he does not intend thereby to change his residence, but that he has a fixed and definite purpose to return to this State on or before six months preceding the next succeeding election in November; sworn before me (signature of clerk, seal of court); and if the persons making such affidavits shall fail so to return and take up their actual abode, domicile, dwelling place and habitation in this State on or before six months next preceding such November election, they shall be conclusively presumed to have abandoned such declared intention, and shall thereupon become disqualified to vote in this State, and the officers of registration shall refuse to register them as qualified voters, or shall strike off their names from the registry if their names be entered thereon. The clerk before whom such affidavit shall be made shall retain, index and record the same, and shall be entitled to demand and receive for each affidavit sworn the sum of thirty cents, and for indexing and recording the affidavit and acknowledgment thereto the same compensation as allowed by law for indexing and recording deeds; such costs to be paid to said clerks by the county commissioners and mayor and city council of Baltimore, respectively. Such affidavits shall not be admissible in evidence as evidence of the right of the persons making the same to registration unless they are recorded within five days from the date of the acknowledgements thereto, and a duly certified copy thereof shall be receivable in evidence in the same manner as a certified copy of a deed. False swearing in any of such affidavits shall be deemed to be perjury, and shall be punishable as perjury is punishable by the code of public general laws, article twentyseven, title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Perjury." Said officers of registration shall require the production of such affidavits, duly recorded, or a duly certified copy thereof in all cases where they shall have reason to suspect that the person applying to be registered as a qualified voter has lost his residence by reason of his removal from the State as hereinbefore mentioned; and they may also in such cases put any question which they may deem proper to such applicant concerning the place where he dwelt in the county or legislative district before such removal out of the State, his occupation before such removal and since the time when he so removed, and when he returned, and all other pertinent facts and circumstances touching the right of such person to be registered, and they may require the truth of the answers of all persons to such questions to be corroborated by independent evidence if in their discretion they shall think proper, and if in answer to their questions or upon testimony produced before them, it shall appear to their satisfaction that the person applying to be registered had left the State without any intention of returning or with the intention of returning at some indefinite time in the future, he shall not be entitled to be registered as a legal voter; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to United States senators and representatives in congress from Maryland. Any officer of registration who shall fail or refuse to perform the duty imposed upon him by this section shall be subject to the penalties imposed by section 94 of this article. Southerland v. Norris, 74 Md. 326. Lancaster v. Herbert, 74 Md. 334. Sterling v. Horner, 74 Md. 573. Bowling v. Turner, 78 Md. 595. 1902, ch. 133, sec. 25 B. 28. All persons who after the passage of the act of 1901, ch. 2, shall remove into any county of this State or into the city of Baltimore from any other State, district or territory shall indicate their intent to become citizens and residents of this State by registering their names in a suitable record book to be procured and kept for the purpose by the clerk of the circuit court for the several counties, and by the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city; such record to contain their names, residence, age and occupation; and the intent of such persons to become citizens and residents of this State shall date from the day on which such registry shall be so entered in such record book by the clerk of the circuit court for the county, or of the superior court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, into which county or city such person shall so remove from any other State, district or territory. And no person coming into this State from any other State, district or territory shall be entitled to registration as a legal voter of this State until one year after his intent to become such legal voter shall be thus evidenced by such entry in such record book, and such entry or a duly certified copy thereof shall be the only competent and admissible evidence of such intent. And the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city and of the several courts of the several counties shall immediately, upon the passage of the act, procure a suitable record book for the recording therein of such entries arranged alphabetically under the names of such persons. For every person so registered under the provisions of this section they shall be entitled to demand and receive the sum of twenty-five cents to be paid to said clerks by the mayor and city council of Baltimore and the county commissioners, respectively. A copy of such record duly certified by said clerk shall be evidence of the right of such person to registration as legal voters according to law, and each person so registered shall be entitled to such certified copy upon demand without charge. Pope v. Williams, 98 Md. —. 193 U. S. 1902, ch. 522, sec. 25 c. 29. Nothing in the preceding section shall be held to apply to persons in the diplomatic or consular service of the United States appointed from Maryland, who at the time of their appointment are registered voters thereof, or to secretaries and clerks, respectively, of the United States senators and representatives in congress from Maryland for periods of service not longer than the term of a United States senator or representative in congress, who shall be at the time of their appointment residents and registered voters of the said State. Intermediate Registration. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 26. 30. Before every November election held in the counties. between the general registration hereinbefore provided for the last general registration shall be revised by the board of registry of each precinct where such election is to be held; and for that purpose the board of registry shall meet on the Tuesdays, respectively, five and four weeks preceding the regular fall election, and shall hold a session from 8 o'clock A. M. to 7 o'clock P. M., and names may be added on the registers in the same way, upon sworn application, as in the case of a general registration, and all the same forms and requirements shall be observed. If it shall appear that any applicant had been upon the registry in any other precinct of any county at any time since the beginning of the last general registration for such precinct, his name shall not be added to the registry where application is made until he produces a certificate of removal given him by the board of supervisors of said county or by the board of registry for such other precincts, which certificate shall be in substance as follows: ." precinct, ward or county. This is to certify that the name of heretofore residing at -, in this precinct, has been stricken from the registry of the precinct and the proper erasure made, and that upon the registers of this precinct the following entries appear with reference to him: Name age time of residence time of residence in State date of application court "Board of Supervisors of Elections (or of Registry)." The foregoing certificate shall be granted by the board of registry when in session, or by the board of supervisors of elections prior to said session of the board of registry under the following regulations-that is to say: If at the time application for said removal certificate is made the name of the said voter is already erased from the registry, then it shall be the duty of the said board of supervisors or the said board of registry to grant the certificate to the voter himself or to any other person making application therefor. But if at the time such application is made the name of the voter be still upon the registry of voters as a qualified voter, the removal certificate shall be granted and the name stricken off only upon the personal application of such voter to the board of supervisors or to the said board of registry, and after his taking and subscribing an oath substantially as follows: "I, solemnly swear (or affirm) that I now reside at do in county; that I am the same person who is entered by that name as a qualified voter in the registers of the precinct of county; that I have removed from the said last-mentioned residence, and I do request that the proper entries and records be made, and that my name be erased from the registers of said last-mentioned precinct, and that a certificate of removal be furnished me at this time." The foregoing affidavit shall be written or printed on the back of such certificate of removal, and when presented to the board of registry of the precinct in which such applicant resides it shall be taken by said board and returned to the office of supervisors of elections. When such certificate shall be granted, either by the board of registry or by the supervisors of elections, as the case may be, the name of such applicant shall be erased from the registers of the precinct from which he removed. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 27. 31. At the end of each of such sessions the registers shall be made to agree, where there is any difference between them, and then the officers of registration having the custody thereof shall sign their names or initials in their respective registry books immediately under the last name registered under each letter on said registers, so that no new name can be added thereto without discovery. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 28. 32. It shall be the duty of the board of registry after the close of the last-mentioned session to note for erasure from such registry the names of all persons known or supposed to be dead, and the names of all persons who are suspected of being disqualified under sections 2 and 3 of article 1 of the |