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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 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 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 before said Board of Registry, to become a resident of said
State and County, shall date from the date of said entry of said Declara-
tion 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 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, 1924, sec. 35. 1912, sec. 29D. 1914, ch. 223.

35. Declarations of intention mentioned in section 31 may as an
alternative 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

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was not repealed, it is codified.