1112 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 540

sub-title "Registrations" be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 29A. Declarations of Intention as mentioned in the
preceding Section may in Frederick, Garrett, Carroll Calvert,
Cecil, Caroline, and Prince George's Counties and in Baltimore
City as an alternative method of making said Declaration, be
made before the Board of Registry, when in session, of the elec-
tion 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 Su-
pervisors of Elections of said County, said blanks to be headed
as follows: "Certificate of Declaration of Intention, " and said
entry to contain the name, the age, the residence, the occupa-
tion and the color of the Declarant and also 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 re-
ceive 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 Declarant in the alphabetical list to be fur-
nished by said Board of Registry under the provisions of Sec-
tion 23 of this Article. And the intent of each person, so de-
claring 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 coming into
said State and county from any other State, District or Terri-
tory, 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 Decla-
ration by said Board of Registry, and such entry, or duly cer-
tified copy thereof shall be the only competent and admissible
evidence of such intent. And such Declaration of Intention,
or a duly certified copy thereof, shall b& evidence of the right
cf such persons to registration as a legal voter according to law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on and after June 1st, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.