ACT. 33] ELECTIONS. 97

Court of Baltimore City, if their removal shall have been from
said city, and make and acknowledge before such clerk an affi-
davit that when they so removed 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 take up their actual domicile and
habitation therein, on or before six months next preceding the
Tuesday after the first Monday of November next succeeding
the making of such affidavit. The form of such affidavit shall
be substantially as follows: State of Maryland, county, or
city of Baltimore, Sct. I hereby certify that on this day
of, 19—, 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 up to the day of or thereabouts he was an
actual resident and inhabitant of the election district of
county, or of the precinct of the ward of the
legislative district of Baltimore city, that on or about the
day of he removed from his said domicile or place of
residence in said county or city, and took up his domicile, habi-
tation, dwelling, place or 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 to return 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 return to
this State, as circumstances thereafter might make expedient;
sworn to before me (signature of clerk, seal of court); and
unless the persons respectively making such affidavit shall actu-
ally return to this State, and shall actually take up their
abode, domicile or habitation therein, six months before the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November next succeeding
the making of said affidavit, they shall be conclusively pre-
sumed to have lost their legal residence therein, and shall not
be entitled to registration therein as legal voters, and officers of
registration shall strike off their names from the registry if
they be entered thereon; and after the passage of Act of 1901,
Chapter 2, all persons who shall vacate and remove from the
place of their actual domicile, abode, dwelling place or habita-
tion within this State, and shall take up a domicile, abode,
dwelling place or habitation out of this State, shall be con-
clusively 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