98 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if such re-
moval 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

day of he vacated and removed from his habita-
tion, dwelling place, domicile or abode, in the precinct
of the election district of county (or of the

ward in the legislative district of Baltimore City)
and took up his abode out of the State. (Here insert particu-
lar designation of such new abode by election district, precinct,
ward, street and number whenever practicable); that notwith-
standing 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 suc-
ceeding election in November; sworn to 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 inten-
tion, 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 index-
ing and recording the affidavit and acknowledgment thereto the
same compensation as allowed by law for indexing and record-
ing deeds such costs to be paid to said clerks by the County
Commissioners and Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, re-
spectively. 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 acknowledgments 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 affi-