PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 971

tion 29 in said Article, and to be designated as Section 29-C,
and to apply only to Frederick County, and to read as follows:

SEC. 29-C. Declarations of Intention mentioned in the pre-
ceding Section may in Frederick County, as an alternative
method of making said Declaration, 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 Elec-
tion of said County, said blanks to be headed as follows: ''Cer-
tificate of Declaration of Intention'' 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 fur-
nished 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 resi-
dence of said Declarant in the alphabetical list to be furnished
by said Board of Registry under the provisions 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 Dec-
laration by said Board. And no person coming into said State
and County from any other State, district or territory, and
making said Declaration before said Board of Registry 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 Declaration by said
Board of Registry, and such entry, or a duly certified copy
thereof, shall be the only competent and admissible evidence of
such intent. And such Declaration of Intention, or a duly cer-
tified copy thereof, shall be evidence of the right of such persons
to registration as a legal voter according to law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 16th, 1914.