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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 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 .declarants in the alphabetical list to be furnished by said
Board of Registry under the provisions of Section 27 of this Article.

And the'intent of each person, so declaring before said Board of Regis-
try, 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 Ter-
ritory 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 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 Prince George's County.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec: 36. 1912, sec. 30. 1904, sec. 29. 1902, ch. 522, sec. 25C.

69. Nothing in'section 63 shall be held to apply to persons in the diplo-
matic or consular service of the United States appointed from Maryland,
who at the time of their appointment are registered voters thereof, or to
secretaries' and clerks, respectively, of the United States senators and rep-
resentatives in congress from Maryland for periods of service not longer
than the term of a United States senator or representative in congress,
who shall be at the time of their appointment residents and registered

voters of the said State.

Secs. 69-75 referred to in construing sec. 90. Tull v. Fitzgerald, 167 Md: 432.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 37. 1912, sec. 30A. 1917, ch. 40, sec. 30A.

70. The name of no voter upon the registration books of any precinct,
ward or election district of this State shall be stricken therefrom during his
absence in the military or naval service of the United States.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 38. 1912, sec. 30B. 1917, ch. 40, sec. 30B.

71. Whenever any new general registration is held in any of the coun-
ties or Baltimore City, it shall be the duty of the several Boards of Reg-
istry to ascertain from every possible source the names of duly registered
voters of this State absent in the military or naval service of the United
States. The names of such persons shall be entered upon the new registra-

¹ The provisions of this section seem to be included in sec. 65, but as this section
was not repealed, it is codified.