1418 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 578

sub-title "Registration, " be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

31. All persons who after the passage of the Act of 1902,
Chapter 133, shall remove into any county of this State from
any other State, district or territory shall indicate their intent
to become citizens and residents of this State by registering
their names in a suitable record book to be procured and kept
for the purpose by the clerk of the circuit court for the several
counties; such record to contain their name, residence, age and
occupation; and the intent of such person to become a citizen
and resident of this State shall date from the day on which
such registry shall be so entered in such record book by the
clerk of the circuit court for the county into which such person
shall so remove from any other state, district or territory. And
no person coming into this State from any other state, district
or territory shall be entitled to registration as a legal voter of
this State until one year after his intent to become such legal
voter shall be thus evidenced by such entry in such record book,
and such entry or a duly certified copy thereof shall be the only
competent and admissible evidence of such intent. And the
clerk of the several courts of the several counties shall imme-
diately upon the passage of this Act, procure a suitable record
book for the recording therein of such entries arranged alpha-
betically under the names of such persons. For every person
so registered under the provisions of this section they shall be
entitled to demand and receive the sum of twenty-five cents,
to be paid to said clerks by the county commissioners. A copy
of such record duly certified by said clerk shall be evidence of
the right of such person to registration as legal voters accord-
ing to law, and each person so registered shall be entitled to
such certified copy upon demand without charge. This section
shall only apply to Baltimore County and to Prince George's
County.

32. Any person who shall have removed into any county
of this State in which Section 31 of this Article is not appli-
cable, or into the City of Baltimore, from any other state, and
who shall have actually had his or her residence within the
borders of this State for the period of one year preceding the
date of the election for which he desires to register, as herein-
after set forth, may prove the fact of his or her said residence
in the following manner: