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of Election, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
to read as follows:

SEC. 10. The judges and clerks appointed by the Board of
Supervisors of Election for Garrett, Queen Anne's, Dorchester,
Howard, Frederick, Washington, Charles, St. Mary's and
Prince George's counties shall not be required to appear before
the said board for the purpose of examination nor to be sworn
in as required by Section 9 of this Article, but the said Board
of Supervisors of Elections for said counties before making
appointments of any such judges or clerks shall thoroughly
inform themselves as to the qualifications of the parties ap-
pointed and shall not require their attendance before the said
board for such examination and shall appoint only such persons
as are known to them to possess the proper qualifications for
the position to which they are severally appointed, and the
said persons may be sworn in either by said board or by a jus-
tice of the peace or notary public of said county, and, when
sworn in by a justice of the peace or notary shall file with said
board a certificate of qualification.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 285.

AN ACT to repeal Section 27 of Article 33 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Elections, " sub-
title "Registration, " and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 27 of Article 33 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, title "Elections, " sub-title "Registra-
tion, " be and the same is hereby re-enacted with amendments
so as to read as follows:

27. All persons whom, prior to the passage of the Act of
1901, Chapter 2 (March 21, 1901), shall have vacated or re-
moved 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 conclu-
sively presumed to have thereby intended to abandon their
legal residence. in this State, and to have surrendered their
right to registration as legal voters in this 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 removed, or before the clerk of the Superior