ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 1019

before the Tuesday after the first Monday in November next
succeeding the making of said affidavit they shall be conclu-
sively presumed to have lost their legal residence therein and
shall not be entitled to registration therein as legal voters, and
the officers of registration shall strike off their names from the
registry if they be entered thereon; and after the passage of
the 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 domi-
cile, 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 acknowl-
edge 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 definite 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
————sct: I hereby certify that on this ———— day of ————
before the subscriber, 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 ———— legis-
lative 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 notwithstanding 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 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