Lancaster v. Herbert
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Charles County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The cause was argued before Alvey, C. J., Miller, Bryan, McSherry, and Briscoe, J. The provisions of section 14 and 19, of the Act of 1890, chap. 573, are unconstitutional.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Charles County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The cause was argued before Alvey, C. J., Miller, Bryan, McSherry, and Briscoe, J. The provisions of section 14 and 19, of the Act of 1890, chap. 573, are unconstitutional. Section 14 of chap. 573, imposes additional qualifications to those prescribed by section 1 of Article 1 of the Constitution, by requiring all persons who, prior to the passage of the Act, shall have vacated or removed from the., place of their actual abode, domicile, dwelling-place, or habitation within the State, and shall…
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, J.
The name of Charles C. Lancaster, Esq., was stricken from the list of qualified voters of election district number five of Charles County in October, eighteen hundred and ninety. Mr. Lancaster thereupon appealed to the Circuit Court for that county, and the action of the officer of registration having been affirmed, the case has been brought into this Court for final review. On the fifth day of May, 1890, Mr. Lancaster made the affidavit required to be made, under sec. 14, ch. 573, Acts of 1890, by registered voters who had left the State prior to the passage of that Act. He attacks the…
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