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Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said Officers of Registration,
upon receipt of said books and lists of qualified voters, to correct
the same by striking therefrom the names of persons who may
have removed from the county or State, or who may have died
or have become disqualified under the provisions of the third
and fifth sections of the first Article of the Constitution, and
all persons whose names appear on said books and lists as
qualified voters, after the same shall have been corrected as
aforesaid, are hereby declared to be legal and qualified voters,
and shall be entitled to vote at.every election hereafter held
in this State; the said Officers of Registration shall then add
to said lists of qualified voters, and register as such every
white male person who shall apply to them to be registered,
and satisfy them that he possesses, or before the day of the
next ensuing election will possess the constitutional qualifica-
tions of age, citizenship and residence, and is not disqualified
under the provisions of the third and fifth sections of the
first Article of the Constitution; Provided, however, that
before registering as a qualified voter any person 8b applying,
the said officer shall administer to him the oath prescribed in
the fourth section of the first Article of the Constitution, or
the voter's oath prescribed in the first section of the said En-
franchising Act referred to in the first section of this Article,
according as the person applying shall elect to take one or
the other of said oaths, and no person who refuses to take one
or the other of said oaths shall be registered as a qualified
voter.

Sec. 4. In making the addition to said registry of qualified
voters, the Officers of Registration shall first record the name
of every person so applying; and second, administer to him
the oath as directed in the preceding section of this Article,
and enter in the proper column of said registration books the
fact whehter he has or not been sworn; third, his age;
fourth, the place of his birth; fifth, the time he has resided
in the city of Baltimore or the county in which he is to be
registered; sixth, if naturalized, the date of his final papers,
or certificate of naturalization, and the court, county and
State whence issued; seventh, if disqualified by means of non-
age, non-residence, alienage, infamy, lunacy, or non compos
mentis, or bribery, as described in the fifth section of the
first Article of the Constitution, the cause of such disqualifica-
tion; and eighth, the name of qualified voters, omitting from
said eighth column the names of persons so as above disqual-
ified and inserting in lieu thereof the names of the witness-
es, or in case of infamy or bribery a statement of the record
proof thereof, and in what court the conviction was had, or other
proof by which such disqualification was established.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of said Officers of Registration
to sit at some place convenient to the voters in the several
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