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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Caroline county (a), where they shall hereafter be held at the place
called and known by the name of The Walnut Trees, in said district.
(a) By 1816, ch. 11, the place for holding elections
in the third election district
in Caroline county is
changed.
By 1807, ch. 78, and 1811, ch.
6, the places for holding elections in the first
and fifth election districts
in Baltimore county are changed.
By December 1813, ch. 36, part
of election district number one, in Worcester
county, is added to district
number two; and by 1815, ch. 10, the place for
holding elections in the third
election district is changed.
By December 1813, ch. 157, the
place for holding elections in the first election
district in Kent county
is changed.
By 1816, ch. 36, the place for
holding elections in the first election district
in Harford county is
changed.
By 1816, ch. 127, Dorchester
county to be laid off into five separate election
districts, according to the
late alteration in the constitution, and the place
designated in each district
for holding elections.
By 1816, ch. 252, confirmed
by 1817, ch. 149, the place for holding elections
in the second election district
in Anne-Arundel county is changed. The city
of Annapolis is to form no part
of that election district, but shall constitute the
sixth election district of the
said county. See note to section 32. |
1805.
CHAP. 97. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judges aforesaid
shall appoint
two clerks, being above the age of twenty-one years, to enter
the names of the voters, separately and plainly, on the books
provided for that purpose, and if any clerk, so appointed, shall
neglect or refuse to act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten
dollars. |
Judges to appoint
two clerks. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every judge of
an election, before
he proceeds to take or receive any vote, shall take the following
oath, or affirmation, to wit: " I A. B. do swear, or affirm, that
" I will permit all persons to vote who shall offer to poll at the election
" now to be held for _____ county, or city, who in my
" judgment shall, according to the directions contained in this law,
" and the constitution and form of government, be entitled to poll
": at the same election, and that I will not permit any person to
" poll at the same election who is not in my judgment qualified to
" vote as aforesaid, and will in all things execute the office of judge
" of the said elections, according to the best of my knowledge,
" without favour or partiality; so help me God:" that every clerk,
before he enters any vote on the polls, shall take the following
oath, or affirmation, to wit: " I A. B. do swear, or affirm, that
I
" will well and faithfully, without favour, affection or partiality,
" execute the office of clerk of the election or elections now to be
" held, according to the best of my knowledge; so help me God;"
and the oath or affirmation of the clerks shall be administered by
a judge of the election, and the oath or affirmation of a judge
shall be administered by a justice of the peace, or if no justice of
the peace be present to administer the same, it shall be administered
by a clerk of the said election, after such clerk shall have been
qualified as aforesaid; and a certificate of every such oath or affirmation,
signed by the person administering the same respectively,
shall be annexed to the polls. |
Oath of the judges
and clerks, how
to be administered
and certified. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the elections
aforesaid respectively
shall commence at nine o'clock in the morning of the respective
days of election, and shall continue without adjournment, and
be closed at six o'clock in the evening of the same day, and no ballot
shall be taken before the said hour of nine o'clock in the morning,
nor after the said hour of six o'clock in the evening, and every |
Elections to commence
at 9 o'clock
A. M. and end at
6 o'clock P. M.
The manner of
voting regulated. |
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