voters, and register as such every white male per-
son 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 Consti-
tutional qualifications of age, citizenship and resi-
dence, and is not disqualified under the provisions
of the third and fifth sections of the first Article

Proviso.

of the Constitution; provided, however, that before
registering as a qualified voter, any person so ap-
plying the said officer shall administer to him the
oath prescribed in the fourth section of the first
Article of the Constitution, or the voters oath pre-
scribed in the first section of the said enfranchising
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.

Additions to
registry.

Sec. 4. In making the addition to said regis-
try of qualified voters, the officers of registration
shall first record the name of every person so ap-
plying; and second, administer to him the oath
as directed in the preceding section of said article,
and enter in the proper column of said registration
books the fact whether 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 Balti-
more 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 dis-
qualified by means of non-age; non-residence,
alienage, lunacy or non compos mentis, or bribery
as described in the fifth section of the first article
of the Constitution, the cause of such disqualifi-
cation; and eighth, the name of qualified voters,
omitting from said eighth column the names of
persons so as above disqualified, and inserting in
lieu thereof the names of the witnesses, 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 disqualifi-
cation was established.

Sessions, &c.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of such officers of
registration to sit at some place convenient to the
voters in the several wards of the city of Balti-