248 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 97

George's Counties as an alternative method of making said
declaration, be made before the Board of Registry when in ses-
sion 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 Elections of said city or county,
said blanks to be headed as follows: "Certificate of Declara-
tion 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 certifi-
cates shall be signed by both members of said Board of Regis-
try, 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 Com-
missioners 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 provi-
sions 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 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 declaration
before said Board of Registry shall be entitled to registration
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 evi-
denced by such entry of said declaration by said Board of Reg-
istry, and 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
thereof, shall be evidence of the right of such person to regis-
tration as a legal voter according to law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1922.

Approved March 21st, 1922