PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 507

at each polling place as there are separate party nominations,
delegates, executives or managing or executive bodies to be
voted for; and to prevent voters belonging to or acting with
one political party from inadvertently or intentionally casting
their ballots for the candidate for nomination for office, or
election as delegate to any convention or as executive or mem-
ber of an executive or managing committee of any other party,
and to facilitate its being promptly detected if so cast, the
ballots of the several parties shall be printed upon opaque
paper of different colors, to be determined by the several
Boards of Supervisors of Elections; and until after the next
general registration in the counties every person offering to
vote at a primary election shall be required to state to which
party he belongs and which party's candidate he intends to
vote for at the State, city or county election, and every quali-
fied person offering to vote in the several counties in the State
at a primary election shall be permitted to vote in the primary
election of that party to which he belongs and which party
candidate he intends to vote for at the State or county elec-
tion and in Baltimore City and in the counties. After the
next general registration in the counties, every qualified per-
son offering to vote at a primary election shall be permitted
to vote in the primary election of that party only with which
he shall appear upon the books of registration to be affiliated.
The respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections in the sev-
eral counties are hereby authorized and required, immediately
upon the passage of this act, to have prepared new books of
registry for use in all of the districts or precincts of the said
several counties for the transcribing of the names of the quali-
fied voters residing therein from the registration books in use.
The said transcribing shall be done in the offices of the Boards
of Supervisors of Elections by four (4) clerks to be selected,
two by the supervisors representing the majority party and
two by the supervisors representing the minority party as the
said parties are now constituted in this State, except Baltimore
county, where said transcribing shall be done in the office of the
Board of Supervisors of Elections by twelve (12) clerks, to be
selected, six by the supervisors representing the majority party
and six by the supervisors representing the minority party, as
the said parties are now constituted in this State. The trans-
cribing shall be done by the said clerks and the new books,
after being transcribed, shall correspond in all respects, and
if they do not correspond at the conclusion of the work, or if
any error in transcribing be alleged to exist, either or any one
of said clerks or any citizen or voter in any one of said coun-