ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 717

of each of the proper duplicate registries of voters under the head
of "qualified voter;" if the applicant is found to be disqualified as
a voter in the election precinct or election district in which he
shall apply to be registered, a line shall be heavily drawn in ink
opposite to his name under the head of "qualified voter," and the
cause of his disqualification shall be briefly stated opposite to his
name as first recorded under the head of "disqualified," and a line
shall be drawn across his name as first entered but in such man-
ner that said name shall remain legible; if the said officers of
registration shall be in doubt after the primary examination of
said applicant and of such other evidence given upon oath or
affirmation as may be immediately accessible, or because of lack
of sufficient proof whether said applicant is a qualified voter, they
may adjourn their determination of the said matter to any subse-
quent day of their sittings, on which appointed day the said offi-
cers of registration shall proceed to determine the matter in ques-
tion and to enter the applicant in each of the proper duplicate
registries of voters as a qualified voter, or as disqualified; but it is
expressly hereby declared and set forth that nothing herein con-
tamed shall be construed as authorizing any of said officers of
registration to ask any question of or concerning any applicant
for registration as a qualified voter touching any cause of dis-
qualification not expressly enumerated in the constitution of this
State; all persons who prior to the passage of this act shall have
vacated or removed from or have gone with their parents from the
place of their actual abode, domicile, 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 pre-
sumed to have thereby intended to abandon their legal residence
in this State, and to have surrendered their right to registration
as legal voters in the 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 re-
moved 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 re-
moved 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 to take up
their actual domicile and habitation therein, on or before six
months next preceding the Tuesday after the first Monday of
November, eighteen hundred and ninety; the form of such affi-
davit shall be substantially as follows: "State of Maryland, ——-
county or city of Baltimore, set: I hereby certify that on this —— day
of ——, 189—, 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 to the — day of —, 18—, or thereabouts he was an actual