PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 915

tated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Elec-

tions," sub-title "Registrations," said new Section to be known
as Section 29-A, and to immediately follow Section 29 in said
Article and to read as follows:

29-A. Declarations of Intention mentioned in the preceding
Section may as an alternative method of making said declara-
tions be made before the Board of Registry when in session of
the Election District or precinct in which the declarant intends
to reside, and be entered by said Board. Said entry to be made
by said Board of Registry on blanks to be furnished by the
Board of Supervisors of Election of said County, said blanks
to be headed as follows: "Certificate of Declaration of Inten-
tion, '' and said entry to contain the name, the age, the residence,
the occupation and the color of the declarant and also the date
of application before said board. Said certificates shall be
signed by both members of said Board of Registry, and one of
said certificates shall be furnished by said Board of Registry
to the declarant without charge and the other certificate shall be
forwarded by said board to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
said county to be recorded by said Clerk in a record book to be
kept by him for that purpose, for which recording the said
Clerk shall receive the sum of fifteen cents for each certificate
so recorded to be paid by the County Commissioners of said
County, and said Board of Registry shall also include the
names, color and residence of said declarants in the alphabetical
list to be furnished by said Board of Registry under the pro-
visions of Section 23 of this Article. And the intent of each
person, so declaring before said Board of Registry, to become a
resident of said State and County shall date from the date of
said entry of said declaration by said board. And no person com-
ing into said State and County from any other State, district or
territory, and making said declaration before said Board of Reg-
istry shall be entitled to registration as a legal voter in said
State and County until one year after his intent to become such
legal voter shall be thus evidenced by such entry of said declara-
tion by said Board of Registry, and such entry or a duly certi-
fied copy thereof shall be the only competent and admissible evi-
dence of such intent. And said certificate of declaration of in-
tention or a duly certified copy thereof shall be evidence of the
right of such persons to registration as legal voters according to
law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall apply
only to Cecil County.