18 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 3

of voters in the registration books or cards; provided, however,
that such Absentee Resident shall not be entitled to be regis-
tered 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 de-
termine are entitled to be registered under this sub-title shall
be written on the appropriate 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 letters
"A. R" In addition, the other information usually placed on
the registration 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 regis-
tered by them, and such oaths shall be considered the best evi-
dence of the facts recited therein in any contest involving the
validity of any registration hereunder.

(c) When properly registered under this sub-title, an Ab-
sentee Resident shall continue as a registered voter to the same
extent and for the same period he would be registered had he
appeared in person and been registered under the provisions of
the election laws in force in Baltimore City, exclusive of this
sub-title.

220. No honorably discharged Absentee Resident, referred to
in sub-section (d) of Section 212 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 discharged Absentee Resident, re-
ferred 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 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 bal-
lot 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 pro-
visions of this sub-title for ballot envelopes and ballots cast by
other Absentee Residents.

221. (a) Immediately after the completion of the canvass of
the votes cast at the regular voting places in the City at any
election, the Board shall meet in Baltimore City at the usual
place for holding the Superior Court ITS OFFICES and shall
there first register all Absentee Residents entitled thereto and