ELECTIONS 1443

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 29. 1904, sec. 28. 1902, ch. 133, sec. 25B.

64.¹ All persons who after the passage of the Act of 1902, Ch. 133,
shall remove into any county of this State or into the City of Baltimore
from any other State, district or territory shall indicate their intent to
become citizens and residents of this State by registering their names in a
suitable record book to be procured and kept for the purpose by the clerk
of the circuit court for the several counties, and by the clerk of the Su-
perior Court of Baltimore City; such record to contain their names, resi-
dence, age and occupation; and the intent of such persons to become citi-
zens and residents of this State shall date from the day on which such
registry shall be so entered in such record book by the clerk of the circuit
court for the county, or of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the
case may be, into which county or city such person shall so remove from
any other State, district or territory. And no person coming into this State
from any other State, district or territory shall be entitled to registration
as a legal voter of this State until one year after his intent to become such
legal voter shall be thus evidenced by such entry in such record book, and
such entry or a duly certified copy thereof shall be the only competent and
admissible evidence of such intent. And the clerk of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City and of the several courts of the several counties shall
immediately, upon the passage of this Act, procure a suitable record book
for the recording therein of such entries arranged alphabetically under
the names of such persons. For every person so registered under the pro-
visions of this section they shall be entitled to demand and receive the sum
of twenty-five cents to be paid to said clerks by the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore and the county commissioners, respectively. A copy of
such record duly certified by said clerk shall be evidence of the right of
such person to registration as legal voters according to law, and each per-
son so registered shall be entitled to such certified copy upon demand
without charge.

This section is constitutional and valid; requisites for registration thereunder. Pope v.
Williams, 98 Md. 66 (affirmed in 193 U. S. 621).

Ch. 578 of 1929, amending secs. 64 and 65 and repealing secs. 66-68, held invalid
as violating art. 1, sec. 5 of the State Constitution for lack of uniformity in registration
laws. Bangs v. Fey, 159 Md. 549.

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

An. Code, 1924, sec. 32. 1912, sec. 29A. 1914, ch. 534. 1916, ch. 540. 1916, ch. 546.
1918, ch. 486, sec. 29A. 1922, ch. 97.

65.¹ Declarations of intentions mentioned in the preceding section
may in Baltimore City and in Anne Arundel, Charles, Queen Anne's, Har-
ford, Montgomery, Garrett, Frederick, Howard, Carroll, Cecil, Caroline,
Wicomico, Talbot, Dorchester, Calvert, Kent, Washington, Allegany,
Somerset, and Prince George's Counties as an alternative method of mak-
ing said declaration, 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 Elec-

¹ Sections 64 and 65 were amended and Secs. 66-68 were repealed by Chapter 578
of the Acts of 1929. This Act was held invalid in Bangs v. Fey, 159 Md. 478. Con-
sequently the sections are included as they existed prior to enactment of said Chapter
578 of 1929.