ELECTIONS 1441

legislative district of Baltimore City, that on or about the ......... day

of ......... he removed from his said domicile or place of residence in

said county or city, and took up his domicile, habitation, dwelling place,
or abode out of the State of Maryland, to wit: (in here insert minute and
definite description of the place of abode) that when he so removed out
of the State he had a fixed and definite purpose to return thereto by a cer-
tain time, and that he did not intend by strch removal to change his resi-
dence within the State, or to return, or not to return to this State, as cir-
cumstances thereafter might make expedient; sworn to before me (signa-
ture of clerk, seal of court); and unless the persons respectively making such
affidavit shall actually return to this State, and shall actually take up
their abode, domicile or habitation therein, six months before the Tuesday
after the first Monday in November next succeeding the making of said
affidavit, they shall be conclusively presumed to have lost their legal resi-
dence therein, and shall not be entitled to registration therein as legal voters,
and officers of registration shall strike off their names from the registry if
they be entered thereon; and after the passage of Act of 1901, Chapter 2,
all persons who shall vacate and remove from the place of their actual
domicile, abode, dwelling place or habitation within this State, and shall
take up a domicile, abode, dwelling place or habitation out of this State,
shall be conclusively presumed to have lost their residence in this State.
and shall in consequence thereof, become disqualified to vote unless at or
about the time of such removal, or within ten days thereafter they shall go
in person before the clerk of the circuit court for the county from which
they shall so remove, or before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, if such removal be from said city, and shall make and acknowledge
before him an affidavit declaring that notwithstanding such removal from
their domicile, abode, dwelling place or habitation, they do not intend
thereby to change their legal residence, but that they have a fixed and defi-
nite purpose to return to this State on or before six months preceding the
next succeeding election in November. The form of such affidavit shall
be as follows: State of Maryland, city or county of .......... set.:

I hereby certify that on this ...... day of ......... before the sub-
scriber, clerk of the Circuit Court for ...... County (or Superior Court

of Baltimore City) personally appeared ......... and made oath (or

affirmation) in due form of law, that on or about the ...... day of .......

he vacated and removed from his habitation, dwelling place, domicile or
abode, in the ......... precinct of the ......... election district of

......... county (or of the ......... ward in the ......... legisla-
tive district of Baltimore City) and took up his abode out of the State.
(Here insert particular designation of such new abode by election district,
precinct, ward, street and number whenever practicable) ; that notwith-
standing such removal he does not intend thereby to change his residence,
but that he has a fixed and definite purpose to return to this State on or
before six months preceding the next succeeding election in November;
sworn to before me (signature of clerk, seal of court). And if the persons
making such affidavits, shall fail so to return and take up their actual
abode, domicile, dwelling place and habitation in this State on or before six
months next preceding such November election, they shall be conclusively
presumed to have abandoned such declared intention, and shall thereupon
become disqualified to vote in this State, and the officers of registration shall
refuse to register them as qualified voters, or shall strike off their names
from the registry if their names be entered thereon. The clerk before whom
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