HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 985

ture of voters in the registration books or cards; provided,
however, that such Absentee Resident shall not be entitled
to be registered if said Board shall determine upon proof
or investigation that any of the material information
contained in said oath is not true. The names of all persons
whom the Board shall determine are entitled to be regis-
tered under this sub-title shall be written on the appro-
priate registration books or cards by the Clerk of the
Board, or by election officials designated by the said Board,
and after each name shall be placed the letter "A. R. " In
addition, the other information usually placed on the reg-
istration books or cards shall be entered to the extent the
same is contained in said oath. The Board shall retain for
a period of three years all oaths of Absentee Residents reg-
istered by them, and such oaths shall be considered the best
evidence of the facts recited therein in any contest involv-
ing the validity of any registration hereunder.

When properly registered under this sub-title, an Absen-
tee Resident shall continue as a registered voter to the
same extent and for the same period he would be regis-
tered had he appeared in person and been registered
under the provisions of the election laws in force in Bal-
timore City, exclusive of this sub-title.

239J. No honorably discharged Absentee Resident, re-
ferred to in sub-section (d) of Section 239B of this sub-
title, who has been discharged more than one month before
the last registration day prior to an election, shall be
entitled to register under this sub-title. Any honorably dis-
charged Absentee Resident, referred to in said sub-section
(d), who has been discharged later than one month before
the last registration day prior to an election, shall be
entitled to register and vote, if before election day, he
delivers in person a written application to the Board of
Baltimore City, for a ballot, ballot envelope and instruc-
tions, 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 envel-
ope, with the ballot enclosed and sealed therein, with the
Board at its regular office. Thereafter 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.

239K. Immediately after the completion of the canvas
of the votes cast at the regular voting places in the City
at any election, the Board shall meet in Baltimore City at