ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 1021

to perform the duty imposed upon him by this section shall be
subject to the penalties imposed by section 94 of this article.
Southerland v. Norris, 74 Md. 326 Lancaster v. Herbert, 74 Md. 334.
Sterling v. Horner, 74 Md. 573. Bowling v. Turner, 78 Md. 595

1902, ch. 133, sec. 25 B.

28. All persons who after the passage of the act of 1901,
ch. 2, 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
superior court of Baltimore city; such record to contain their
names, residence, age and occupation; and the intent of such
persons to become citizens 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 compe-
tent 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
the 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
provisions 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 council of Baltimore and the county
commissioners, respectively. A copy of such record' duly cer-
tified by said clerk shall be evidence of the right of such per-
son to registration as legal voters according to law, and each
person so registered shall be entitled to such certified copy
upon demand without charge.
Pope v. Williams, 98 Md. —. 193 U S. —.

1902, ch. 522, sec. 25 c.

20. Nothing in the preceding section shall be held to apply
to persons in the diplomatic or consular service of the United