572 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

party to which he belongs and which party candidate he intends to
vote for at the State or County election and in Baltimore City and in
the Counties. After the next general registration in the Counties,
every qualified person offering to vote at a primary election shall be
permitted to vote in the primary election of that party only with
which he shall appear upon the books of registration to be affiliated.
The respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections in the several Conn-
ties are hereby authorized and required, immediately upon the passage
of this Act, to have prepared new books of registry for use in all
of the districts or precincts of the said several Counties for the
transcribing of the names of the qualified voters residing therein from
the registration books in use. The said transcribing shall be done
in the offices of the Boards of Supervisors of Elections by four (4)
clerks to be selected, two by the Supervisors representing the majority
party and two by the Supervisors representing the minority party as
the said parties are now constituted in this State, except Baltimore
County, where said transcribing shall be done in the office of the Board
of Supervisors of Elections by twelve (12) clerks, to be selected, six
by the Supervisors representing the majority party and six by the
Supervisors representing the minority party, as the said parties are
now constituted in this State. The transcribing shall be done by the
said clerks and the new books, after being transcribed, shall correspond
in all respects, and if they do not correspond at the conclusion of the
work, or if any error in transcribing be alleged to exist, either or any
one of said clerks or any citizen or voter in any one of said Counties
may file a petition in the Circuit Court within ten days after said work
is finished, naming said clerks and the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions as defendants, and the said Court shall have the power to make
such order for the correction of said books as may be proper. The cost
of such preparation of proper registry books shall be paid by the
County Commissioners of the County in which such sab-division shall
be made, upon proper requisitions and vouchers presented by the
Boards of Supervisors of Election. Any political party that polled
more than one per cent of the votes cast at the last election may,
through its political committee, if it has one, or by citizens represent-
ing said party, if there be no political committee, name a watcher
and substitute watcher who shall be permitted to attend at the tran-
scribing of said names and have power to examine the said books
during the sittings of said clerks for the said work and for a period of
five days thereafter in the presence of said Board of Supervisors. In
the books of registry so provided for to be used in transcribing said
registered voters in each and every County of the State, subsequent
to the passage of this Act, there shall be provided a distinct column
headed "Party Affiliations," and the Board of Registers shall enter in
this column the name of the political party, if any, to which the voter
is inclined and" with which the voter desires to have himself recorded