1586 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 736

said Board of Registry. At the request of either party the
Board shall issue subpoenas to witnesses to appear at such
hearings and such witnesses shall be sworn and examined.
All cases shall be heard and decided immediately after hear-
ing. If a board constituted as above provided shall decide,
that any such person is not entitled to have his or her name
on the registry, his or her name shall be removed therefrom
and his or her registration forms cancelled and the same
change made in the precinct registry. If a board so consti-
tuted shall decide that the name of any such person should
appear on such registry, it shall be added thereto and his or
her registration forms placed in the proper registration files
and his or her name, together with other appropriate entries,
shall be entered in the precinct registry.

Any person who shall feel aggrieved by the action of any
of the above mentioned boards may, for any of the causes
and within the time mentioned in Section 27 of this Article,
file a petition verified by affidavit, in the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County or in the Circuit Court for Washington
County, as the case may be, setting forth the grounds of his
or her applications, and asking to have the registry corrected.
The proceedings of the Court subsequent to the filing of such
petition shall be governed by the provisions of said Section 27
of this Article. Upon the delivery to the Permanent Board
of Registry of the respective Counties of a certified copy of an
order granting the relief prayed in the petition, said Perma-
nent Boards of Registry shall correct the original and
duplicate cards in accordance with such order and shall make
the appropriate disposition of such cards. Exceptions may be
taken and appeal allowed as provided in said Section 27, and
such appeal shall be taken, heard and decided as provided in
said section.

29H. The provisions of Sections 29A to 29G, inclusive,
shall only apply to Montgomery and Washington Counties.
Except as otherwise provided in said Sections 29A to 29 H,
inclusive, the provisions of Article 33 relating to registration
and elections shall apply in every particular to Montgomery
and Washington Counties.

If any section or provision of Sections 29A to 29H, inclusive,
shall be judicially declared to be invalid or unconstitutional,
the remaining provisions thereof shall not be thereby affected,
but shall remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the
same are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.