1556 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

said absentee ballot and count and canvass the same as
provided in this sub-title. In primary elections, the fulfillment
of requirements as to age and length of residence set forth in
(b), (c) and (d), shall be determined as of the date of the
general election for which said primary election is held.

The signature of such Absentee Resident in subscribing said
oath shall be accepted in lieu of the customary signature of
voters in the registration books or cards; provided, however,
that such Absentee Resident shall not be entitled to be reg-
istered if said Board shall determine upon proof or investi-
gation that any of the material information contained in
said oath is not true. The names of all persons whom the
appropriate Boards determine are entitled to be registered
under this sub-title shall be written on the appropriate reg-
istration 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. E. ". In addition,
the other information usually placed on the registration books
or cards shall be entered to the extent the same is con-
tained 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.

133. No honorably discharged Absentee Resident, referred
to in sub-section (d) of Section 124 of this sub-title, who has
been discharged more than one month before the last regis-
tration 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