PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION. 303

of January in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, or
that he is a descendant of a person who has become a natural-
ized citizen of the United States between the first day of Janu-
ary in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and the date of
the adoption of this section of this article, shall be prima facie
evidence of any of said facts so sworn to. A wilfully false
statement upon the part of any applicant for registration in
relation to any of the matters aforesaid shall be perjury, and
punishable as perjury is punished by the laws of this State.
Any person who feels aggrieved by the action of any board of
officers of registration in refusing to register him as a qualified
voter, or in registering any disqualified person, may at any time,
either before or after the last session of the board of officers of
registration, but not later than the Tuesday next preceding the
election, file a petition, verified by affidavit, in the circuit court
for the county in which the cause of complaint arises, or, if the
cause of complaint arises in Baltimore city, in any court of
common law jurisdiction in said city, setting forth the grounds
of his application and asking to have the action of the board
of officers of registration corrected. The court shall forthwith
set the petition for hearing and direct summons to be issued
requiring the board of officers of registration complained
against in said petition to attend at the hearing in person or by
counsel, and where the object of the petition is to strike off the
name of any person, summons shall also be issued for such
person, which shall be served by the sheriff within the time
therein designated; and said several courts shall have full
jurisdiction and power to review the action of any board of
officers of registration and to grant or withhold, as it may deem
lawful and proper, the relief prayed for in the premises. In
determining whether any person who applied to be registered
under the above fifth clause of this section was or was not enti-
tled to be registered under said fifth clause, the court shall
require the board of officers of registration complained against
to produce the written application prepared and submitted
by such person at the time he presented himself for registra-
tion to said board of officers of registration, and upon said
written application the court shall determine whether or not
said person, when he presented himself for registration, com-
plied with the requirements of said fifth clause; and if the court
shall determine that said written application, so prepared and
submitted by said person, complied with the requirements of
said fifth clause, and that said person was not disqualified
under any other provision of this article of the Constitution to
be registered upon the books of registry in question, then the
court shall order said person to be registered as n qualified