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column opposite the name of every registered voter either
his party affiliations er the word "declined. "

The Board of Registry shall be entitled to receive from
the officers having custody thereof the last preceding reg-
istration books, for the purpose of comparison and assis-
tance in identification, and if any one shall apply for
registration his name shall be entered in the new regis-
ters, but he shall be marked "disqualified, " unless such
grounds of disqualification shall have been removed. At
the end of the day's registry said officer shall compare
the two registers 'so kept, and cause any errors in either
of them to be corrected, by aid of the entries in the
other, so as to make the same agree where there is any
difference between them. Each of the same officers
having the custody of one of said registers shall then
sign his name or initials immediately under the last
names registered under each letter in the book kept by
him, so that no new name can be added without dis-
covery ,

"The said Board of Registry shall keep, on blanks to
be provided for that purpose by the Board of Supervisors
of Elections, an alphabetical list of the names, addresses
and color of all persons registered, and a separate list of
all persons refused registration, and of all persons whose
names are erased from the registry.

" In the City of Baltimore, at the end of each session,
they shall deliver these lists to the police officer on
duty at the registration office, and the list shall be
delivered by the said officer to the police board,
and by the police board to the Board of Supervisors
of Elections in the forenoon of the day following
said sitting. The Board of Supervisors for the City
of Baltimore shall then cause such list to be printed in
hand-bill form, in plain long primer type, and copies
thereof posted within three days after each session, in
such manner that they may be easily read, in at least ten
prominent places in each precinct.

"112. The word 'election, ' whenever used in this Art-
icle, shall be construed to include elections had within
any county or city for the purpose of enabling voters to
choose some public officer or officers under the laws of
this State, or of the United States, or to pass upon any