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registration officers of that fact. If the applicant shall be
registered as a voter elsewhere in the State of Maryland, he or
she shall not be permitted to register unless he or she shall
file with the registration officers of said town an affidavit
duly executed before a Notary Public or a Justice of the
Peace certifying that he or she has definitely abandoned any
prior place of residence. The proceedings for the registration
of voters, except as herein otherwise provided, shall conform
as nearly as may be possible to the proceedings for the regis-
tration of voters under the general election laws of this State.
Transfers may be granted by the registration officers from one
ward to another in said town upon removal of the residence
of the voter. Voters shall have the same right as they now
have under the general election laws of this State, and any
person who feels aggrieved by the action of the Board of Reg-
istration either by refusing to register an applicant or in re-
fusing to erase from the register the name of any such sus-
pected person shall have the same right of appeal to the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George's County as now exists under the
said general laws and the procedure in such cases shall be
the same and the Circuit Court for said County is hereby
vested with jurisdiction and authority to hear and determine
all such appeals. Not less than seven days' notice of the time
and place and hours of registration shall be given by The
Mayor and Common Council in advance of the first day fixed
for such registration. When not in actual use for registration
or election purposes the books of registration shall be deposited
in the custody of the Treasurer of said town and shall be open
to public inspection free of charge, subject, however, to such
regulations as The Mayor and Common Council may prescribe.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its pas-
sage.

Approved April 26, 1939.

CHAPTER 139.
(House Bill 94)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter
469 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of
1933, codified as Section 540B of Article 17 of the Code of