420 ARTICLE 33.

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.
Cited hut not construed in Wagner v. Scurlock, 166 Md. 291.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 33. 1912, sec. 29B. 1914, ch. 541.

33. Declarations of intention mentioned in section 31 may as an al-
ternative 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 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 certificate shall be for-
warded 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 alpha-
betical 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 compe-
tent 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, 1024, sec. 34. 1912, 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 before the Board of Registry when in session of the Election Dis-
trict 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

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was not repealed, it is codified.