ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 855

refused him, he may be registered by the registers sitting under this sec-
tion. Barret v. Taylor, 85 Md. 175.

Registrars will not be directed by mandamus to make entries in the regis-
tration books after their control of such books has ceased. Summerson v.
Schilling, 94 Md. 590.

This section referred to in construing section 25. Collier v. Carter, 100
Md. 385.

Cited but not construed in Wilson v. Carter, 103 Md. 123; Ticer v. Thomas,
74 Md. 343.

1904, art. 33, sec. 23. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 22.

24. At the end of the last session above provided for, the said board
of registry shall compare and correct the two registers and make them
agree, and the officers having them respectively, in their custody, shall
then immediately under the last name registered under each letter of
the registers sign their names, so that no other names can be added
without discovery; all of said officers of registration shall then subscribe,
at the end of each register, a certificate in substance, in the words follow-
ing: "We, the undersigned, constituting the board of registry in precinct
or district of ———— county, (or in ———— precinct of the ————
ward of the city of ————), in the State of Maryland, do jointly and
severally certify that, at the general registration of voters in said
precinct, closed on this ————— day of ————— there were registered by
us, in said precinct, the names which in this book are entered, and that
the number of registered and qualified voters was and is the number
of ———— (Signature.)

Dated ————

During the next day the board of registry shall return the two registers
to the board of supervisors of elections, and in the counties the said
boards of registry shall at the same time return the alphabetical list of
the names, color and addresses of the persons registered and erased by
them, and in Baltimore city the boards of registry shall at the same
time return the lists made by them at their last session; and the said
boards of supervisors shall at once cause said alphabetical lists to be
printed in handbill form in long primer type, and copies thereof posted,
within three days after the return of said lists, as aforesaid, in such
manner that they may be easily read, in at least ten prominent places
in the respective precincts. The board of supervisors in the city of
Baltimore and in the several counties shall cause to be printed at least
ten extra copies of all the handbills prepared by them, respectively,
under this article, and as many more copies as may be required to
supply all demands for any of them made, with the tender of the
price before the printing thereof, which copies they shall sell to the
public at five cents per copy, the proceeds of said sales to be applied
towards paying the expenses of printing the same. The said boards of
supervisors shall furnish to any one making written application therefor,
within ten days after such application has been received, or in less
time, if practicable, a certified copy, under their hands, of the names,
addresses, color and ages of all persons registered in any ward in said
city, or in any election precinct or district of said county, for the sum