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BALTIMORE CITY.

Appoint-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the governor, by and with

mentof
registers of
voters.

the advice and consent of the senate, shall, on or before the
first day of May, in each and every year, appoint three discreet

persons in each of the wards of the city of Baltimore, residents

in the respective wards for which they shall be appointed, who

shall be called the registers of voters within the city of Balti-

more, and who shall serve for one year from the date of their

commissions, and until successors shall be appointed, and who

Their com*

shall receive for compensation two dollars per day, for every day

pensation.

on which they may be actually engaged in the discharge of the

duties of their office, and the said registers shall be, and they

Clerks.

are hereby authorized to appoint a clerk for each of their seve-

ral wards, to aid them in making a clear and perfect registry of

the legal voters of the said ward, and the said clerks shall re-

ceive for such service, from the said city of Baltimore, two

Their com-

dollars for every day they shall be so employed ; and the said

pensation.

compensation of said registers and clerks shall be raised as the

other expenses of elections in said city are raised by tax or

otherwise.

Oath of

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That before entering on the duties

registers
and clerks.

of their respective offices, and on the day on which they shall
first enter on the discharge of said duties, the said registers and

their clerks, and the judges of all elections in said city and their

clerks respectively, shall solemnly swear or affirm, that they

will faithfully and honestly perform the duties of their respec-

tive offices, and observe, iti all things, the requirements of the

constitution of the United States, and the state of Maryland,

and the laws of the general assembly of Maryland in relation

to elections, iu conducting said registry or election, and any

justice of the peace for said city shall bo competent to admi-

Penalty for

, nisler said oath or affirmation, and it shall be the duty of any

refusing to
administer.

such justice of the peace, on being applied to by said registers
or judges of election, to administer said oath or affirmation

under a fine of one hundred dollars.

Sit to

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

register
votes.

said registers, or a majority of them, to sit at some public and
convenient place within the limits of their several wards, on

Tuesdays and Wednesdays of every week, from the first Mon-

day of August to the third Wednesday in September, inclusive,

in each and every year, for the purpose of registering the names

of voters, who may apply to be registered, the said registers in

Publication

i each ward to cause to be inserted in all the daily papers of the

of notice.

city of Baltimore, which will insert it, a notice of the times and

places in each ward, when and at which the said votes will be

Handbill..

registered, and to cause notice to be given by placing handbills

at such public places as they shall select, the first notice to bo

published in the said daily papers, or in as many of the said