HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1481

Court for the several counties and by the clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, such record to contain their names,
residence, age and occupation; or (b) so declaring their in-
tent before the Board of Registry of the election district or
precinct in which such declarants intend to reside or if such
declarants intend to reside in a county having a permanent
board of registry, before such permanent board, and causing
an entry of such declaration to be made by said Board on
duplicate blanks headed Certificate of Declaration of Intention
to be furnished by the Supervisors of Elections, said entries
to contain the name, age, residence and occupation of declar-
ant and the date of application; one such certificate signed
by a member of said Board of Registry shall be furnished with
out charge to the declarant and the other shall be forwarded
by said Board to the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county
or the Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be, to
be recorded by him in a record book kept for that purpose.

No such person coming into this State from any other
State, district or territory of the United States shall be en-
titled to registration as a voter in this State until one year
after his intent to become a citizen and resident of this State
shall be evidenced in one of the two ways herein provided,
and the intent of such person so to become a citizen and resi-
dent of this State shall date from the day on which such reg-
istry shall be entered as herein provided by the clerk of the
Circuit Court for the said county or of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City, as the case may be, or from the day on
which entry of such declaration is made by the Board of Reg-
istry, according to which method of declaring such intent is
used in a particular case. For recording such declarations
of intent, the clerks of the Circuit Court in each county and
of the Superior Court of Baltimore City shall receive the sum
of twenty-five cents for each declaration recorded, to be paid
by the County Commissioners of the respective counties or by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case may be.

NOMINATIONS AND PRIMARIES.

32. Any convention or primary meeting as hereinafter de-
fined, held for the purpose of making nominations to public
office, and also voters to the number hereinafter specified, may
nominate candidates for public office to be filled by election
within the State. A convention or primary meeting within
the meaning of this section is an organized assemblage of dele-
gates or voters, representing a particular party or principle,
whose highest candidate at any election held within two years
next preceding the holding of such convention polled more than
one per cent, and less than ten per cent, of the entire vote cast
in the State, county or other division or district for which the