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250 ELECTIONS. [ART. XXXIII
appointed when duly qualified shall for their respective districts or pre-
cincts, collectively, constitute the board of registry thereof. Said officers
of registration, and each of them, in addition to the power hereinafter
conferred upon them as judges of election shall have, during the respec-
tive times of the appointed sittings of said board of registry, authority
to keep the peace and to preserve order and enforce obedience to their
lawful commands at and around their places of registration; to keep
the access to such place open and unobstructed, to prevent and suppress
riots, tumult, violence and disorder, any violation of this article, and
all other improper practices at and around their place of registration
tending to intimidation or to the obstruction of their work; they may
compel by summons or attachment the presence of witnesses before them
for any purpose connected with the duties of their office, and may com-
mit for trial any person committing at or around their place of registra-
tion any breach of the peace or other offense forbidden by this article;
they shall have the power to issue any of said summonses, attachments
or commitments when sitting in any county in this State to the sheriff
of said county or to any constable thereof and when sitting in the City
of Baltimore to marshal of police or to any police officer of said city;
all such processes shall be served by said respective officers in the same
manner as if they were issued by a court of record having jurisdiction
of the subject-matter or by a justice of the peace exercising police powers
within such respective jurisdictions. The sheriff or constable in any
county of this State who shall serve any of said processes shall receive
the same fees in like manner as it is or may be by law provided that
he shall receive fees in other State cases, but no officer of police in the
City of Baltimore shall charge or receive any fee for any service per-
formed under this article; and no officer of registration shall charge or
receive any compensation for any service performed under this article
except such as is herein provided. The board of police commissioners
for the City of Baltimore shall detail police officers and the sheriffs for
their respective counties shall detail deputy sheriffs, by them appointed,
sufficient in number to preserve order at the places in said City of Bal-
timore and in said respective counties where said officers of registration
may be sitting for the discharge of the duties of their respective offices:
Provided, however, that in Anne Arundel County it shall not be man-
datory for the sheriff of said county to detail deputy sheriffs for duty
in connection with registration in said county.
See notes to this section in volume 1 of the Annotated Code.
1904, art. 33, sec. 17. 1896, ch. 202. sec. 16. 1901, ch. 2. 1910, ch. 2, sec. 236
(p 405) 1916, ch. 158, sec. 17.
17. On Tuesday six weeks preceding the election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1896, which shall
occur after the enactment of this Article, each Board of Registry shall
meet at the place designated by its Board of Supervisors of Election,
and shall proceed to make a general registration of all voters in its pre-
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