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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 follows: " Certificate of Declaration of Inten-
tion " and said entry to contain the name, the age, the residence, the occu-
pation and the color of the Declarant and also the date of application be-
fore 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 certifi-
cate 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 in-
clude 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 26 of this Article. And the intent of each person, so declaring be-
fore 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 Reg-
istry, and such entry, or a duly certified 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 persons to registration as a legal voter according to law.1

An. Code, sec. 29D. 1914, ch. 223.

35. 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 follows: "Certificate of Declaration of Intention," and said entry
to contain the name, the age, the residence, the occupation and the color
of the Declarant and also the date of application before s.aid 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 Certificate shall be forwarded by
said Board to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County to be re-
corded 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,

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not repealed it is codified.

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