574 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

paper of different colors, to be determined by the Board of Supervisors
of Elections of Dorchester County; and until after the next general
registration in Dorchester County every person offering to vote at a
primary election shall be required to state to which party he belongs
and which party's candidate he intends to vote for at the State or
county election, and every qualified person offering to vote in Dor-
chester County at a primary election shall be permitted to vote in the
primary election of that party to which he belongs and which party
candidate he intends to vote for at the State or county election in
Dorchester County. After the next general registration in Dorchester
County, 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 affili-
ated. The Board of Supervisors of Elections in Dorchester County
is hereby authorized and required, immediately upon the passage of
this Act (April 13, 1914), to have prepared new books of registry
for use in all of the districts or precincts of the said Dorchester County
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 office of the Board of. Supervisors of Elections of Dorchester
County by four (4) clerks to be selected, two by the supervisors repre-
senting the majority party and two by the supervisors representing the
minority party as the said parties are now constituted in this State.
The transcribing shall be done by 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 said county 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 Elections of Dorchesetr County 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 Dorchester
County, upon proper requisitions and vouchers presented by the Board
of Supervisors of Elections of Dorchester County. 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 repre-
senting 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 Dorchester County subsequent to April 13,
1914, 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