1248 ARTICLE 33.

said Declaration by said Board of Registry and such entry, or a duly certi-
fied copy thereof, shall be the only competent and admissible evidence of
such intent. And such declaration of intention, or a duly certified copy
thereof, shall be evidence of the right of such person to registration as a
legal voter according to law..

An. Code, sec. 29B. 1914, ch. 541.

33. Declarations of intention mentioned in section 31 may as an alter-
native 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 furnished by the Board of
Supervisors of Election of said County, said blanks to be headed as fol-
lows : "Certificate of Declaration of Intention," and said entry to con-
tain the name, the age, the residence, the occupation and the color of the
declarant, and also the date of application before said Board. Said certi-
ficates 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 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 26 of this Article.

And the intent of each person, so declaring before said Board of Reg-
istry, 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.1

An. Code, sec. 29C. 1914, ch. 573.

34. Declarations of Intention mentioned in section 31 may in Fred-
erick County, as an alternative method of making said Declaration, be
made be'fore the Board of Registry when in session of the Election Dis-
trict or Precinct in which the Declarant intends to reside, and be entered

1 The provisions of this section seem to be included in sec. 32, but as this section was
not repealed, it is codified.