302 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

make application to register correctly, stating in such applica-
tion his name, age, date and place of birth, residence and occu-
pation at the time and for the two years next preceding, the
name or names of his employer or employers, if any, at the time
and for the two years next preceding, and whether he has pre-
viously voted, and if so, the State, county or city, and district
or precinct in which he voted last, and also the name in full
of the president of the United States, of one of the Justices of
the Supreme Court of the United States, of the Governor of
Maryland, of one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland and of the Mayor of Baltimore city, if the applicant
reside in Baltimore city, or of one of the County Commissioners
of the county in which the applicant resides; and any person
who is unable to comply with the aforegoing requirements as to
making application for registration in his own handwriting,
solely because he is physically disabled from so doing; or sixth:
A person, or the husband of a person, who at the time of his
application for registration is the bona fide owner of real or
personal property in an amount of not less than five hundred
dollars, is assessed therefor on the tax books of the city of Bal-
timore or of one of the counties of this State, has been such
owner and so assessed for two years next preceding his appli-
cation for registration; shall have paid; and shall produce re-
ceipts for, the taxes on said property for said two years, and
shall at the time of his application make affidavit before the
officers of registration that he is, or that he is the husband
of the person who is the bona fide owner of the property so
assessed to him or to her, as the case may be, and that he or
she has been such owner for two years next preceding his
application. No person not qualified under some one of the
-above clauses shall be entitled to be registered as a qualified
voter or be entitled to vote. Every written application to be
registered, presented to the officers of registration by any per-
son applying to be registered under the above fifth clause,
shall be carefully preserved by said officers of registration and
shall be produced in any court, if required, as hereinafter pro-
vided. The affidavit of any applicant for registration, duly
made to the officers of registration or in court, that he, the
applicant, is a person who was entitled to vote on or before
the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine, as aforesaid, or that he has become a naturalized
citizen of the United States between the first day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and the date of
the adoption of this section of this article, as aforesaid, or his
affidavit upon information and belief that he is a descendant
of a person who was entitled to vote on or before the first day