862 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

legal residence in this State, and to have surrendered their right to
registration as legal voters in this State, unless within thirty days after
April 6, 1908, they shall go in person before the clerk of the circuit
court for the county from which they shall have so removed, or before
the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if their removal shall
have been from said city, and make and acknowledge before such clerk
an affidavit that when they so removed they did not intend to, change
their legal residence within the State, but that they had a fixed pur-
pose to return at a definite time, and that they intend to return to this
State and take up their actual domicile and habitation therein, on or
before six months next preceding the Tuesday after the first Monday
of November next succeeding the making of such affidavit. The form
of such affidavit shall be substantially as follows: State of Maryland,
-———— county, or city of Baltimore, set. I hereby certify that on
this ———— day of —————, 19———, before the subscriber, clerk of
the circuit court for ———— county, (or of the superior court of Bal-
timore city) personally appeared ———— and made oath or affirmation
in due form of law, that up to the day of or thereabouts he was an
actual resident and inhabitant of the election district of ———— county,
or of the ———— precinct of the ———— ward of the ———— legislative
district of Baltimore city, that on or about the ———— day of ————
he removed from his said domicile or place of residence in said county
or city, and took up his domicile, habitation, dwelling, place of abode
out of the State of Maryland, to wit: (in here insert minute and definite
description of the place of abode) that when he so removed out of the
State he had a fixed and definite purpose to return thereto by a cer-
tain time, and that he did not intend by such removal to change his
residence within the State, or to return, or not to return to this State,
as circumstances thereafter might make expedient; sworn to before me
(signature of clerk, seal of court); and unless the persons respectively
making such affidavit shall actually return to this State, and shall
actually take up their abode, domicile or habitation therein, six months
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 officers of registration shall
strike off their names from the registry if they be entered thereon; and
after the passage of 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 con-
clusively 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