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before the last registration day prior to an election, shall be entitled
to register under this sub-title. Any honorably discharged absentee
resident, referred to in said sub-section [(d)] (b), 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,
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. 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.

278 Contests and Appeals. Contests concerning registration, vot-
ing or the validity of any ballot under this sub-title shall be decided by
the Board. No registration shall be denied and no ballot rejected ex-
cept by the unanimous vote of said Board. Any candidate or absentee
resident aggrieved by any decision or action of said board shall
have the right of appeal to the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
if he so desires, to review such decision or action, and jurisdiction
to hear and determine such appeals is hereby conferred upon said
Court. Such appeals shall be taken by way of petition filed with the
said Court within five (5) days from the date of the completion of
the official canvass by the Board of all the votes cast at any election,
shall be heard de novo and without a jury by said court as soon as
possible. There shall be a further right of appeal to the Court of
Appeals [, provided such appeal shall be taken within five (5) days
from the date of the decision of the lower Court complained of, and
all such appeals shall be heard and decided on the original papers,
including a typewritten transcript of the testimony taken in such
cases by the Court of Appeals as soon as possible after the same have
been transmitted to said Court. Said original papers, including the
testimony shall be transmitted to the Court of Appeals within ten
(10) days from the taking of the appeal].

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1958.

Approved March 13, 1958.

CHAPTER 39

(House Bill 44)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1 of
Chapter 609 of the Acts of 1953, authorizing an increase in the
rate of interest of certificates heretofore unissued in respect to

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.