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election in the six calendar years preceding the recopying of such books,
the Supervisors of Elections shall send them a notice to the address given
on said registration books notifying them that their names will not appear
on the new registration book, and warning them it will be necessary for
them to appear before the Board of Registry in the precinct in which they
reside on one of the regular registration days and register in order to be
entitled to vote, and the notice so sent by the Supervisors shall take the
place of a transfer in the event that any such person does not at the time of
applying for registration, live in the precinct in which he or she was for-
merly registered; but before sending said notices said Supervisors of Elec-
tions shall publish for three consecutive weeks in all the newspapers
published in Harford County, proper notice showing the intent and purpose
of said notices.

1939, ch. 128, sec. 29U.

62. After the new registration books are prepared in accordance with
the provisions of Section 61, it shall be the duty of the Board of Registry
in each precinct of Harford County when it sits as a Board of Review,
as provided under the provisions of this Article, to strike from the regis-
tration books of the respective precincts the names of all persons regis-
tered on said books who have not voted at least once at a primary, general or
special election in the six preceding calendar years or in the current year
and such persons so stricken from said books shall be given the same notice
as those stricken therefrom for other causes, under the provision of this
Article.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 30. 1912, sec. 28. 1904, sec. 27. 1901, ch. 2, sec. 25A. 1908, ch. 285.

63. All persons whom, prior to the passage of the Act of 1901, Chap-
ter 2 (March 21, 1901), shall have vacated or removed from, or have
gone with their parents from the place of their actual abode, domicile,
dwelling place or habitation within this State, and shall have taken a domi-
cile, dwelling place, abode or habitation out of this State, shall be conclu-
sively presumed to have thereby intended to abandon their legal residence
in this State, and to have surrendered their right to registration as legal
voters in this State, unless within thirty days after April 6, 1908, they
shall go in person before the clerk of the circuit court for the county from
which they shall have so removed, or before the clerk of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City, if their removal shall have been from said city, and
make and acknowledge before such clerk an affidavit that when they so
removed they did not intend to change their legal residence within the State,
but that they had a fixed purpose to return at a definite time, and that they
intend to return to this State and take up their actual domicile and habi-
tation therein, on or before six months next preceding the Tuesday after
the first Monday of November next succeeding the making of such affidavit.
The form of such affidavit shall be substantially as follows: State of Mary-
land, —————— county, or City of Baltimore, set. I hereby certify that
on this ......... day of .......... 19...., before the subscriber, clerk

of the Circuit Court for ......... County, (or the Superior Court of

Baltimore City) personally appeared ......... and made oath or affirma-
tion in due form of law, that up to the day of or thereabouts he was an
actual resident and inhabitant of the election district of ......... county,

or of the ......... precinct of the ......... ward of the .........

¹ Sec. 2, ch. 128, 1939, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent of such
inconsistency.