and deposit the ballot of any such person, he shall
on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a fine of not
1688 than five hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars for each offence, and be impri-
soned until such fine and costs of prosecution are
paid, and shall also be liable in damages at the
suit of the party aggrieved.

Sec. 15. The provisions of this article shall ex-
tend to all special elections, whether municipal or
otherwise, and to the voters upon amendments to
the Constitution, and for or against a Convention
to frame a new Constitution, whenever such ques-
tion has been or may be submitted to the people
by the Legislature; and if it shall be found before
any such election that the ten days notice of the
sittings of the Registers cannot be given as required
in the previous sections of this article, they shall
nevertheless proceed to the discharge of their
duties, giving such notice thereof as the time will
admit or as in their judgment they may deem pro-
per, and the registration so made, and the lists of
qualified voters handed by them to the Judges of
election shall be taken by said Judges as the lists
of persons entitled to vote at such election.

Applies to all
elections.

Sec. 16. The Governor shall appoint three per-
sons as officers of registration, whose duty it shall
be to register the soldiers of this State in the mili-
tary service of the United States, and such persons
in the naval service of the United States as may be
stationed at convenient and accessible points who
are absent from their regular places of voting on
account of such service, and it shall be the duty of
such officers of registration to visit the different
regiments, camps and hospitals, or other posts
where said soldiers may be, for the purpose of
ascertaining and registering all such as shall or
may be qualified to vote, and said officers of regis-
tration shall perform said duty in like manner as
is required in other sections of this article, and
shall return their books or list of registration for
the different counties and the City of Baltimore to
such officers of registration in said city and counties
as the Governor shall designate twenty days before
any election, and it shall be the duty of the officers
of registration, to whom such returns shall be
made, to cause the names so returned to be regis-

Registry of
soldiers.