1018 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

1901, ch. 2, sec. 25 A.

27. All persons who, prior to the passage of the act of 1901,
chapter 2,* shall have vacated or removed from or have gone
with their parents from the place of their actual abode, domi-
cile, dwelling place or habitation within this State and shall
have taken a domicile, dwelling place, abode or habitation out
of this State shall be conclusively 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 the passage of this
act 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 habitation 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 Maryland,———— county or city of Baltimore,
sct: I hereby certify that on this ———— day of ————, 19 ———,
before the subscriber, clerk of the circuit court for ———— county,
(or of the superior court of Baltimore city), personally appeared

———— and made oath or affirmation in due form of law that
up to the day of ———— or thereabouts he was an actual resi-
dent and inhabitant of the ———— election district of ————
county or of the ———— precinct of the ———— ward of the

———— 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 (here insert minute and definite descrip-
tion 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 certain time and that he did not intend by such removal
to change his residence within the State, or to return or not to
return to this State, as circumstances thereafter might make
expedient; sworn to before me (signature of clerk, seal of
court); and unless the persons respectively making such
affidavits shall actually return to this State and shall actually
take up their abode, domicile or habitation therein six months

* March 21,1901