Barret v. Taylor

Citations

• 85 Md. 173
• 36 A. 708
• 1896 Md. LEXIS 123

Syllabus

<p>Elections and Voters — Right of Persons to be Registered who Become Naturalized and of Age After the First Sitting of the Registers.</p> <p>The Act of 1896, chap. 202, provides that persons constitutionally qualified shall be registered as voters at the September sittings of the registers. Section 21 of the Act provides that the registers shall sit in October for the purpose of revising their registry, and no new name shall then be added. In September the appellant applied to the registers, stating that he was then an unnaturalized foreigner under twenty-one years of age, but that he would come of age on October 13th following and would on that date apply for naturalization, and, if successful, present the papers to the registers. His name was entered as an applicant on the duplicate lists, but registration was refused. On October 13th the applicant being then of age, was naturalized, and on the same day presented his naturalization papers to the registers, who were in session under said section 21. Held, that he was entitled to be registered as a voter.</p>