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bailiffs of said city, shall, when called on by the said registers

or judges of elections, or any two of them, assist said registers

or judges of election, as the case may be, in preserving the peace,

committing offenders, keeping the place of holding said election,

or taking said registries, clear of a crowd, and making them

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easy of access to the legal voters, under a penalty of fifty dollars,

penalty.

and it shall be the duty of the warden of the jail of said city or

county to receive, and safe keep any offender, committed by said

registers and judges of elections, until discharged in due course

of law.

SEC. 22. And be if enacted. That in case any vacancy or

Case of

vacancies shall occur in the list of registers to be appointed by

vacancies.

this act, the governor, by and with the advice and consent of

the senate, if the senate be in session, shall proceed to fill such

vacancy as soon as may be after it occurs, and if the senate be not

in session, then the governor shall fill such vacancy, and it shall

be the duty of the registers, whenever any vacancy takes place,

to report the fact immediately to his excellency the governor.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted. That if either of said registers

Betting

shall bet, or be in any manner interested in any bet or bets, on

prohibited-

any election, or shall be stakeholder of any bet or bets, or shall

at any time, exhibit their books, except to each other, or give a

Or copy of

copy thereof to any person or persons, whatever, except the

books.

judges of election and the clerk of the county court, as herein

before provided, the said register shall, on conviction thereof,

Penalty

before Baltimore city court, be fined the sum of one hundred

$100,

dollars, and be imprisoned six months.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That if any legal voter shall

Voter

arrive in the city of Baltimore, on the day of election, and he

arriving on
day of

shall prove, by indifferent testimony, before any two justices of

election.

the peace of said city, that he has been absent from the city or

state, and had no means of registering his name, and shall also

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prove that he is otherwise entitled to vote under the constitution

and laws of this state, then, and in that case, the ju.dges of the

election are authorized to have the name of said voter entered

on the register, and to receive his vote on his producing a certi-

ficate to that effect from the said two justices of the peace.

SEC. 25. And be it enacted, That if the said registers, or any

Register

of them, shall be guilty of any fraud in the execution of the

guilty of
fraud.

duties of their office, they shall be subject to a fine of five hun-

Penalty.

dred dollars and imprisonment in the jail not less than six

months nor more than two years.

SEC. 26. And be it enacted. That the said registers shall sit,

Hour of

on the days required by the law, for making said registration,

sitting.

or correcting the same, from ten o'clock in the ifiorning till five

in the afternoon.

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