LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 546

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 29A of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title. "Elections"
sub-title "Registrations" be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 29A. Declarations of Intentions mentioned in the
preceding Section may in Baltimore City and in Harford,
Montgomery, Garrett, Frederick, Carroll, Cecil, Caroline,
and Prince George's Counties as an alternative method of mak-
ing 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 Election of said city
or 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 occupation 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 and of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, respectively, 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 the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, and said Board of Registry shall also
include the names, color and residence 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 in-
tent of each person, so declaring before said Board of Registry,
to become a resident of said State and County or City, shall date
from the date of said entry of said Declaration by said Board.
And no person coming into said State and county or city, from
any other State, District or Territory, and making said Decla-
ration before said Board of Registry shall be entitled to regis-
tration as a legal voter in said State and county or city 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 certified copy