846 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

counties, as provided in section 7, shall also be an officer of registration
in the district or precinct for which he shall be appointed, and the
judges so appointed when duly qualified shall for their respective dis-
tricts or precincts, collectively, constitute the board of registry thereof.
Said officers of registration, and each of them, in addition to the power
hereinafter conferred upon them as judges of election shall have, during
the respective times of the appointed sittings of said board of registry,
authority to keep the peace and to preserve order and enforce obedience
to their lawful commands at and around their places of registration; to
keep the access to such place open and unobstructed, to prevent and
suppress riots, tumult, violence and disorder, any violation of this
article, and all other improper practices at and around their place of
registration tending to intimidation or to the obstruction of their work;
they may compel by summons or attachment the presence of witnesses
before them for any purpose connected with the duties of their office,
and may commit for trial any person committing at or around their
place of registration any breach of the peace or other offense forbidden
by this article; they shall have the power to issue any of said sum-
monses, attachments or commitments when sitting in any county in this
State to the sheriff of said county or to any constable thereof and when
sitting in the city of Baltimore to marshal of police or to any police
officer of said city; all such processes shall be served by said respective
officers in the same manner as if they were issued by a court of record
having jurisdiction of the subject-matter or by a justice of the peace
exercising police powers within such respective jurisdictions. The
sheriff or constable in any county of this State who shall serve any
of said processes shall receive the same fees in like manner as it is or
may be by law provided that he shall receive fees in other State cases,
but no officer of police in the city of Baltimore shall charge or receive
any fee for any service performed under this article; and no officer of
registration shall charge or receive any compensation for any service
performed under this article except such as is herein provided. The
board of police commissioners for the city of Baltimore shall detail police
officers and the sheriffs for their respective counties shall detail deputy
sheriffs, by them appointed, sufficient in number to preserve order at
the places in said city of Baltimore and in said respective counties
where said officers of registration may be sitting for the discharge of
the duties of their respective offices.

The act of 1896, ch. 202, wholly repealed the prior law relative to elections
and adopted an entirely different system of reglstraton. Turner v. Bryan, 83
Md. 373; Meloy v. Scott, 83 Md. 375.

As to the civil liability of judges of election for fraudulently and mali-
ciously refusing to register a voter, see Friend v. Hamill, 34 Md. 298; Elbin v.
Wilson, 33 Md. 142. See also, Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 530.

As to the validity of the registration act of 1865, ch. 174, and the qualifica-
tion of registers thereunder; the nature of the right of suffrage and the con-
struction of statutes regulating the same, see Anderson v. Baker, 23 Md. 531;
Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 512.

General object of the registration law. Wilson v. Carter, 103 Md. 126.
Cited but not construed in Carter v.. Applegarth, 102 Md. 340.