1244 ARTICLE 33.

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 acknowl-
edge 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 purpose 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 Baltimore 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 certain 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 conclusively 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 per-
son 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 removal from their domi-
cile, 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 succeed-