718

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

resident and inhabitant of the —— election district or of the ——

precinct of the —— ward of the —— legislative district of Balti-

more city; that on or about the —— day of —— , 18 — , he re-

moved from his said domicile or place of residence in said county

(or city,) and took up his domicile, habitation, dwelling-place or

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abode out of the State of Maryland, to wit; in (here insert minute

and definite description of the place of abode); that when he so

removed out of the State he had a fixed and definite purpose 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 re-

turn to this State as circumstances thereafter might make ex-

pedient acknowledged 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 before the Tues-

day after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and

ninety, they shall be conclusively 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 this act all persons who shall vacate and remove from

the place of their actual domicile, abode, dwelling-place or habi-

tation within this State and shall take up a domicile, 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 acknowledge before him an affidavit de-

claring 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 affi-

davit shall be as follows: "State of Maryland, city (or county) of

—— set: I hereby certify that on this —— day of —— 189 — ,

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before the subscriber, clerk of the circuit court for —— county

certificate.

(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 —— 189 — , he vacated and removed from

his habitation, dwelling-place, domicile or abode in the —— pre-

cinct of the —— election district of —— county, (or of the ——

ward in the —— legislative 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