ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 849

1904, art. 33, sec. 17. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 16. 1901, ch. 2. 1910, ch. 236 (p. 105).
17. On Tuesday six weeks preceding the election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1896, which shall
occur after the enactment of this article, each board of registry shall
meet at the place designated by its board of supervisors of election, and
shall proceed to make a general registration of all the voters in its
precinct or district, as the case may be. The proceedings of each board
of registry shall be as follows: 1. They shall open the registry in the
city of Baltimore at twelve o'clock M., and continue in session until
ten o'clock P. M. on the Tuesday aforesaid. In the counties the hours
of session shall be from eight o'clock A. M. to eight o'clock P. M. One
of the officers of registration shall administer to all persons who shall
personally apply to register the following oath or affirmation: "You
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will fully and truly answer all
such questions as shall be put to you touching your place of residence,
name, place of birth, your qualifications as a voter, and your right as
such to register and vote under the laws of this State." 2. The two
officers of registration designated by the supervisors to have the custody
of the two registry books, or such of their colleagues as such of them
may respectively ask to temporarily replace him in the discharge of
this duty, shall make the entries therein required by this article, and
the questions as to qualifications shall be asked by the other officers of
said board. 3. The name and age of every applicant shall be entered
in such registry books and all the facts of his application shall be therein
stated as herein provided, whether he be entitled to vote or not. If
it shall be determined by the board that he is not a qualified voter in
the precinct, then an entry shall be made in the appropriate column
"No," and a line shall be drawn in red ink through his name and
through all the other entries on the line on which his name is written,
but so that the name and said other entries shall remain legible; and if
qualified, an entry shall be made in the same column "Yes." 4. Only
persons constitutionally qualified to vote in the precinct at the next
election and personally applying for registration shall be registered as
qualified voters. 5. The headings to the registry books shall be so
prepared that the registry shall be made alphabetical, according to the
surname of each person applying, and so that the residence and post-
office address of such persons shall appear in the first column. The
registers shall be ruled, and one name shall be written on each line,
but no names shall be written between the lines. The entries shall be
as follows: (a) Under the column "Residence and postoffice address,"
the name and number of the street, avenue or other location of the
dwelling, if there be a definite number, and if there shall not be a
number, or if there shall be duplicate numbers, such clear and definite
description of the place of such dwelling as shall enable it to be readily
ascertained; if there shall be more than one house at the number given
by the applicant as his place of residence, it shall be stated in which
house he resides, and if there be more than one family residing in
said house, either the floor on which he resides, or the number or
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