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such intent, And the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city and of the
several courts of the several counties shall immediately, 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 provisions 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 com-
missioners, 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 thereunder.
Pope v. Williams, 98 Md. 66 (affirmed in 193 U. S. 621).

An. Code, see. 29A. 1914, ch. 534. 1916, ch. 540. 1916, ch. 546. 1918, ch. 486, sec. 29A.

1922, ch. 97.

32. Declarations of intentions mentioned in the preceding section may
in Baltimore City and in Anne Arundel, Charles, Queen Anne's, Harford,
Montgomery, Garrett, Erederick, Howard, Carroll, Cecil, Caroline, Wi-
comico, Talbot, Dorchester, Calvert, Kent, Washington, Allegany, Somerset
and Prince George's Counties as an alternative method of making said
declaration, 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 furnished by the Board of Supervisors of Elections of said
city or county, said blanks to be headed as follows: " Certificate of Declara-
tion of Intention," and said entry to contain the name, the age, the resi-
dence, the occupation and the color of the declarant and also date of appli-
cation before said board. Said certificates shall be signed by both members
of said Board of Registry, and one of said certificates shall be furnished by
said Board of Registry to the declarant without charge, and the other cer-
tificate shall be forwarded by said board to the clerk of the Circuit Court
for said County and of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, respectively,
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 Commis-
sioners of said County and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and
said Board of Registry shall also include the names, color and residence of
said declarant in the alphabetical list to be furnished by said Board of
Registry under the provisions of Section 25 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 or city, shall date from the date of said
entry of said declaration by said board. And no person coming into said
State and County or city 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 or city 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 of