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ART. XXXIII] REGISTRATION. 251
cinct or district, as the case may be. The proceedings of each Board
of Registry shall be as follows: 1. They shall open the registry in
the City of Baltimore at 12 o'clock M., and continue in session until
10 o'clock P. M.; on the Tuesday aforesaid. In the counties the hours
of session shall be from 8 o'clock A. it. to 8 o'clock P. M. One of the
officers of registration shall administer to all persons who shall person-
ally apply to register the following oath or affirmation: "You do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will fully and truly answer all
such questions as shall be put to you touching your place of residence,
name, place of birth, your qualifications as a voter, and your right as
such to register and vote under the laws of this State." 2. The two
officers of registration designated by the Supervisors to have custody of
the two registry books, or such of their colleagues as such of them may
respectively ask to temporarily replace him in the discharge of his duty,
shall make the entries therein required by this Article, and the ques-
tions as to qualifications shall be asked by the other officers of said
Board. 3. The name and age of every applicant shall be entered in
such registry book and all the facts of his application shall be therein
stated as herein provided, whether he be entitled to vote or not. Tf it
shall be determined by the Board that he is not a qualified voter in
the precinct, then an entry shall be made in the appropriate column
"No," and a line shall be drawn in red ink through his name and
through all the other entries on the line on which his name is written,
but so that the name and said other entries shall remain legible; and
if qualified, the entry shall be made in the same column "Yes." 4.
Only persons constitutionally qualified to vote in the precinct at the
next election and personally applying for registration shall be registered
as qualified voters. 5. The headings to the registry books shall be so
prepared that the registry shall be made alphabetical, according to the
surname of each person applying, and so that the residence and post-
office address of such persons shall appear in the first column. The
registers shall be ruled, and one name shall be written on each line, but
no name shall be written between the lines. The entry shall be as fol-
lows : (A) Under the column "residence and postoffice address"; the
name and number of the street, avenue or other location of the dwelling
if there be a definite number, and if there shall not be a number, or if
there shall be duplicate numbers, such clear and definite description of
the place of such dwelling as shall enable it to be readily ascertained;
if there shall be more than one house at the number given by the appli-
cant as his place of residence, it shall be stated in which house he
resides and if there be more than one family residing in said house,
either the floor on which he resides, or the number or location of the
room or rooms occupied by him shall be stated, every floor below the
level of the street or ground being designated as the basement; the floor
upon or first above such level being designated as the first floor, and
each floor above that as the second, or such other floor as it may be,
In county precincts it shall only be necessary to give such general
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