ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 541

of Registry, to become a resident of said State and county shall date
from the date of said entry of said declaration by said board. And no
person coming into said State and county from any other State, district
or territory and making said declaration before said Board of Registry
shall be entitled to registration as a legal voter in said State and county
until one year after his intent to become such legal voter shall be thus
evidenced by such entry of said declaration by said Board of Registry,
and such entry or a duly certified copy thereof shall be the only com-
petent and admissible evidence of such intent. And said certificate
of declaration of intention or a duly certified copy thereof shall be evi-
dence of the right of such persons to registration as legal voters accord-
ing to law. This section shall apply only to Cecil County.

1914, ch. 541.

29B. Declarations of intention mentioned in section 29 may as an
alternative method of making said declarations be made before the
Board of Registry when in session of the election district or precinct
in which the declarant intends to reside, and be entered by said Board.
Said entry to be made by said Board of Registry on blanks to be fur-
nished by the Board of Supervisors of Election of said County, said
blanks to be headed as follows: "Certificate of Declaration of Inten-
tion," and said entry to contain the name, the age, the residence, the
occupation and the color of the declarant, and also the date of applica-
tion before said Board. Said certificates shall be signed by both mem-
bers of said Board of Registry and one of said certificates shall be fur-
nished by said Board of Registry to the declarant without charge, and
the other certificate shall be forwarded by said Board to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for said county, to be recorded by said clerk in a
record book to be kept by him for that purpose, for which recording the
said clerk shall recive the sum of fifteen cents for each certificate so
recorded to be paid by the County Commissioners of said county, and
said Board of Registry shall also include the names, color and resi-
dence of said declarants in the alphabetical list to be furnished by said.
Board of Registry under the provisions of Section 24 of this Article.

And the intent of each person, so declaring before said Board of
Registry, to become a resident of said State and County shall date from
the date of said entry of said declaration by said Board...

And no person coming into said State and County from any other
State, District or Territory and making said declaration before said
Board of Registry shall be entitled to registration as a legal voter in
said State and County until one year after his intent to become such
legal voter shall be thus evidenced by such entry of said declaration by
said Board of Registry, and such entry or a duly certified copy thereof
shall be competent and admissible evidence of such intent. And said
certificate of declaration of intention or a duly certified copy thereof
shall be evidence of the right of such persons to registration as legal
voters according to law. This section shall only apply to Caroline
County.