16 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1

that such Absentee Resident shall not be entitled to be regis-
tered if said Board shall determine upon proof or investiga-
tion that any of the material information contained in said
oath is not true. The names of all persons whom the appro-
priate Boards determine are entitled to be registered under
this sub-title shall be written on the appropriate registration
books or cards by the Clerks of the respective Boards, or by
election officials designated by said Boards, and after each
name shall be placed the letters "A. R.". In addition, the
other information usually placed on the registration books or
cards shall be entered to the extent the same is contained in
said oath. Each Board shall retain for a period of three
years all oaths of Absentee Residents registered by them, and
such oaths shall be considered the best evidence of the facts
recited therein in any contest involving the validity of any
registration hereunder.

When properly registered under this sub-title, an Absentee
Resident shall continue as a registered voter to the same ex-
tent and for the same period he would be registered had he
appeared in person and been registered under the provisions of
the election laws of Maryland, exclusive of this sub-title.

313A. No honorably discharged Absentee Resident, referred
to in sub-section (d) of Section 305 of this sub-title, who has
been discharged more than one month before the last registra-
tion day prior to an election, shall be entitled to register
under this sub-title. Any honorably discharged Absentee Resi-
dent, referred to in said sub-section (d), who has been dis-
charged later than one month before the last registration day
prior to an election, shall be entitled to register and vote, if
otherwise entitled to do so under this sub-title, and if on or
before election day, he delivers in person a written application
to the Board of his county or Baltimore City, as the case may
be, for a ballot, ballot envelope and instructions, and marks
the ballot, executes the oath on the ballot envelope before any
member of the Board, who shall take the oath and witness the
same, and leaves said ballot envelope, with the ballot enclosed
and sealed therein, with the Board at its regular office. There-
after the Board shall follow the same procedure as to ballot
envelope and ballots cast by any such honorably discharged
Absentee Resident, as is set forth in the other provisions of
this sub-title for ballot envelopes and ballots cast by other
Absentee Residents.

314. FURTHER REGISTRATION OF ABSENTEE RESIDENTS : CAST-
ING, COUNTING, CERTIFYING AND CANVASSING OF ABSENTEE BAL-
LOTS. Immediately after the completion of the canvass of the