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of such revision, may file a petition, as provided for the first general
registration, and thereupon the same proceedings shall be had and the
same forms and methods shall be used as in case of similar petitions
under the said section 25.

Cited but not construed in Wilson v. Carter, 103 Md. 124.

See notes to sec. 25.

1904, art. 33, sec. 37. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 33.

38. The place of any officer of registration who may be absent on
any day of registration or revision shall be filled by the other mem-
bers of the board then present, always selecting a person of the same
political party as the absent person, and the same oath shall be admin-
istered by one of the members of said board then present to such tem-
porary officer of registration, as provided in the case of the regular
officers of registration; whenever the regular officer shall return or be
present the temporary incumbent shall vacate his office. The appoint-
ment and swearing in of all such substitutes, and the reasons therefor,
and the time when such substitutes began and ceased to serve as officers
of registration shall be noted by the board in the registers.

Ibid. sec. 38. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 34.

39. There shall not be a previous revision of the registry before any
special election, but at such election the registry books as last prepared
or revised shall be used. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
seven, however, and every second year thereafter, the books of regis-
tration for the city of Annapolis shall be open by the several boards of
registry for the wards or precincts thereof on the second Monday and
the following Tuesday in those years, for the purpose of registering new
voters and for the correction of said books of registration prior to the
biennial municipal elections in s'aid city in the month of July, and of
those sittings of the said boards of registry, ten days' previous public
notice shall be given by the board of supervisors of Anne Arundel .
county, directed by section 14.*

This section referred to in construing section 125. Anne Aruudel County v.
Melvin, 107 Md. 534.

Cited but not construed In Summerson v. Schilling, 94 Md. 591.

Ibid. sec. 39. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 35.

40. The board of supervisors of elections, the board of registry and
each member of said board of registry shall, without fee or reward,
whenever the said registers, or any one of them, in its or his custody,
permit the same to be freely inspected by any one wishing so to do;
such inspections shall be made in the presence of a member or members
of the said board of supervisors or one of their clerks, or of the said
board of registry, or of those members of the board of registry in whose
custody the said registers may be, and not otherwise. Said board of

*As to the registration of voters in Annapolis, see acts 1908, ch. 525, and 1910,
ch. 270 (p. 541). See also, Anderson v. Myers, 182 Fed. 223.