JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 783

officers of registration to be registered, as a qualified
voter, said officer shall diligently enquire and accu-	Diligently
rately ascertain that such person possesses or will pos-	enquire.
sess, before the election next ensuing, the requisite
constitutional qualifications to entitle him to be reg-
istered as a qualified voter, and that he is not dis-
qualified under the provisions of the second and third
sections of the first article of the Constitution ; and if
it shall appear that said person so applying possesses
or will possess before said day of election said qual-
ifications, and is not so disqualified, then said officers
of registration shall register the name of such person
as a qualified voter, but they shall not register the
name of any person who does not or will not possess	Proviso.
said qualifications or is so disqualified ; provided, that
when any person applying as aforesaid for registration
shall have been previously registered within this
State, the officer of registration to whom such appli-
cation is made, before registering such person, shall
demand and receive from him the certificate of his
previous registration as is provided for in the sixth
section of this act.
SEC. 8. In registering any person who shall apply
to said officers of registration to be registered, said
officers shall first record the name of such person in	Registering.
the proper column of said books of registration, and
second, administer to him the oath as directed in this
article, and enter in the column of said books whether
he has or has not been sworn ; third, his age; fourth,
the place of his birth ; fifth, his residence ; sixth, the
time he has resided in Baltimore city or the county
in which he applies to be registered ; seventh, if
naturalized, the date of his final paper or certificate
of naturalization, and the court, county and State
where issued ; eighth, if disqualified by non-age,
non-residence, alienage or non compos mentis, or con-
viction of bribery, or larceny or other infamous	Qualifications.
crime, as described in the second and third sections
of the first article of the Constitution, the cause of
such disqualification ; ninth, the name of the quali-
fied voter, omitting from said ninth column the name
of the person so above disqualified, and inserting in
lieu thereof the name of the witnesses by whom said
disqualification was established, or, in case of con-
viction of bribery, or larceny, or other infamous