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BALTIMORE CITY.

Registries

SEC. 27. And be it enacted, That the official registries shall

deposited.

be deposited by the judges of election within one week after

every election, in the office of the clerk of Baltimore county

court for safe keeping, and the said clerk shall deliver said

registries to the registers of the several wards, on their applying

for the same, whenever and so often as it may be necessary, for

the purpose of correcting or adding to the lists of the voters,

previous to any election, as provided by this law.

Entry on

SEC. 28. And be it enacted, That it shall not he necessary for

registries
instead of

the clerks of the elections to keep a list of the names of the

record of

persons who may vote at their respective wards, but they shall

name.

enter opposite to the name of every person registered, the letter

'Y.' in a line under the date on which said vote was given, and

keep a tally of the number of votes as they are taken.

Elections

SEC. 29. And be it enacted, That any election held in the city

not accord-
ing to this

of Baltimore, at which the provisions of this act shall not be

act, void.

observed, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, null,

void, and of none effect.

Acts of

SEC. 30. And be it enacted. That the act passed at December

1837, ch.

session, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter one hun-

149, &c.
repealed.

dred and forty-nine, entitled, an act to guard against frauds in

the exercise of the elective franchise in the city of Baltimore,

and all other acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with the provi-

sions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Ballot to be

SEC. 31. And be it enacted, That at the first registration of

taken on
this act

voters under this act, every person, on making his application to

the registers to have his vote registered, and who may, by said

registers, be adjudged to be entitled legally to vote, may declare

his approval or disapproval of this act, and for that purpose the

said registers shall provide a box in which the ballots of said

legal voters shall be deposited, and the said ballots shall have

If against

written on them the words 'Registry,' or 'No Registry,' and the

registering*

said ballots on the day of finally concluding said registry, shall

be counted by said registers, and a certificate made out by

them, of the number of ballots for the 'Registry,' and those for

'No Registry,' and the said certificates, together with the num-

ber of all the names of the legal voters, contained on said regis-

tries, shall be transmitted by said registers to the governor, and

by him laid before the general assembly, at its next session, and

if it be found on comparing the number of ballots with the

words 'No Registry' on them, with the number of the names of

all the legal voters registered, that a majority of said legal voters

have decided against this law, notice of that fact shall be given

to the governor, by the presiding officers of the two houses of

Proclama-

the legislature, and the governor shall issue his proclamation,

tion.
Null Mid

declaring this act, thenceforward, null, void, and of none effect.

void.

but if it shall appear that a majority of all the legal voters have