ART. 33] INTERMEDIATE REGISTRATION. 865

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 Balti-
more city and of the several courts of the several counties shall imme-
diately, 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 provi-
sions 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.

This section is constitutional and valid; requisites for registration there-
under. Pope v. Williams, 98 Md. 66 (affirmed in 193 U. S. 621).

1904, art. 33, sec. 29. 1902, ch. 522, sec. 25 e.

30. Nothing in section 28 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 repre-
sentative in congress, who shall be at the time of their appointment
residents and registered voters of the said State.

Intermediate Registration.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 26.

31. Before every November election held in the counties between
the general registration hereinbefore provided for the last general regis-
tration 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 registra-
tion, 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