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ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 543
furnished 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 receive 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
residence 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, Dis-
trict 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 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 Act shall only apply to Prince George's
County.
Nominations.
1904, art. 33, sec. 41. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 37. 1901, ch. 2. 1912, ch. 124.
42. All nominations made by such conventions or primary meet-
ings shall be certified as follows: The certificate of nomination shall
be in writing, shall contain the name of each person nominated, his
residence, his business, his 'address and the office for which .he is nomi-
nated, and shall designate, in not more than one word, the party or
principle which such convention or primary meeting represents. It
shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such conven-
tion, who shall add to their signatures their respective places of resi-
dence, their business and business address, and acknowledge the same
before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments, who shall
append a certificate of such acknowledgment thereto. If the nomina-
tion is by means of a primary election, the certificate shall be signed
and acknowledged by the persons whose duty it may be, by party usage,
to declare the result of such election in the manner prescribed for a
nomination by a convention, but no party emblem or device of any
kind shall be added to said certificate; and if any such emblem or
device should be added, it shall not be printed upon the ballot by the
Secretary of State or any of the boards of supervisors of elections.
See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.
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