ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 851

named registered under each letter in the book kept by him, so that
no new name can be added without discovery. The said board of
registry shall keep, on blanks to be provided for that purpose by the
board of supervisors of election, an alphabetical list of the names,
addresses and color of all persons registered, and a separate list of all
persons refused registration, and of all persons whose names are erased
from the registry. In the city of Baltimore, at the end of each session,
they shall deliver these lists to the police officers on duty at the registra-
tion office, and the list shall be delivered by the said officer to the police
board, and by the police board to the board of supervisors of elections
in the forenoon of the day following the said sitting. The board of
supervisors for the city of Baltimore shall then cause such list to be
printed in hand-bill form, in plain long primer type, and copies thereof
posted within three days after each session in such manner that they
may be easily read, in at least ten prominent places in each precinct.
Nothing in this section 17 shall affect the registration in the counties
heretofore made under this article.

Mandamus will not be granted to compel the officers of registration to
enter on their books the fact that an applicant can not read or write. The
board of registry is not a perpetual board or continuously in office. Summer-
son v. Schilling, 94 Md. 582.

The entries of the officers of registration on their books are the findings of
officers charged with the duty of ascertaining their correctness, and should
not be disturbed until their falsity is established. Langhammer v. Munter,
SO Md. 518.

A party applying for registration under section 31, should be questioned in
accordance with this section. If, however, he is not so questioned, upon a
petition to strike his name off the list, he may prove that he is entitled to be
registered. Davis v. O'Berry, 93 Md. 710.

A person who once lived in a ward, is entitled to register and vote there
until he acquires a residence in another place. Jones v. Skinner, 87 Md. 560.
Where a foreigner applies to the registers sitting in September, stating
that he would be of age October 13th following and would then apply for
naturalization and present his papers to the registers, he Is not entitled to
register under this section—see section 23 and notes. Barret v. Taylor, 85
Md. 175.

An unmarried man, a clerk on a steamboat, who sleeps on the boat, is not
entitled to register in the home port of the vessel. Howard v. Skinner, 87
Md. 557.

Cited but not construed in Meloy v. Scott, 83 Md. 376.

1904, art. 33, sec. 18. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 17.

18. It shall be the duty of the board of police commissioners of Bal-
timore city, between the first day of September and the commencement
of registration in each year, to cause a census, as nearly as possible
accurate, to be made by members of the force under their command, of
the legal voters resident in each precinct of the said city. The said
census shall give the address of each person known or supposed by the
officer of police taking it to be a legal voter of the city, and a copy
thereof for their precinct shall be furnished by the said police commis-
sioners to each board of registry when they meet on the first day of
their sessions, as hereinbefore provided. And the officer of police tak-
ing the said census shall in every case be assigned to duty at the office
of registration in the precinct where he took the said census, unless, for