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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Take oath.

Baltimore City, and the clerk of the Circuit Court
of the several counties respectively, the oath pre-
scribed in the sixth Section of the third Article of
the Constitution; and the present Officers of Regis-
tration shall serve out the full term for which they
were severally appointed.

Clerks shall
deliver books.

Sec. 3. The clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore City, and the clerk of the Circuit Court of
the several counties, shall deliver to the Officers of
Registration for Baltimore City and the several
counties, the hooks of registration in the offices of
the said clerks respectively, and also duly certified
copies of the lists of qualified voters in their re-
spective offices, on the second Monday in Septem-
ber, eighteen hundred and seventy, and on the
same Monday in every year thereafter.

Demand books

Sec. 4. The Officers of Registration, as aforesaid,
shall on the third Monday in September, eighteen
hundred and seventy, and on the same day and
month, in every year thereafter, demand from said
clerks of the said courts of Baltimore City and the
several counties said books of registration, and cer-
tified copies of the lists of qualified voters, directed
to be delivered to said officers by said clerks, in the
third Section of this Article; and said Officers of

Protect books
and lists.

Registration shall safely keep and protect said
books and lists from alteration, mutilation and
defacement whilst in their possession.

Sit with open
doors.

Sec. 5. For the purpose of discharging the duties
imposed on them by this Article, said Officers of
Registration shall for six successive days in Balti-
more City, and three successive days in each of the
counties of the State, commencing on the third
Monday in September, and on the same Monday in
every year thereafter, at some convenient place, to
the voters in the several wards of the city of Bal-
timore, and the several election districts of the
counties, to sit with open doors from nine o'clock
A. M., until nine o'clock P. M., in Baltimore City,
and from nine o'clock A. M., until six o'clock P.
M., in the several counties; and they shall give at
least twenty days' notice of the time and place of

Give notice.

sitting, by publication in at least one newspaper
published in the counties, and three in Baltimore
City, one of which shall be in German.