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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 performed 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 Baltimore 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 mandatory for the sheriff of said county to detail deputy
sheriffs for duty in connection with registration in said county.

Act of 1896, ch. 202, wholly repealed prior law relative to elections and adopted
an entirely different system of registration. Turner v. Bryan, 83 Md. 373; Meloy v.
Scott, 83 Md. 375.

As to civil liability of judges of election for fraudulently and maliciously refus-
ing to register a voter, see Friend v. Hamill, 34 Md. 298; Elbin v..Wilson, 33 Md.
142. See also Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 530.

As to validity of registration act of 1865, ch. 174, and qualification of registers
thereunder; nature of the right of suffrage and construction of statutes regulating
same, see Anderson v. Baker, 23 Md. 531; Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 512.

General object of the registration law. Wilson v. Carter, 103 Md. 126.

Cited but not construed in Carter v. Applegarth, 102 Md. 340.

An. Code, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 16. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 15. 1901, ch. 2. 1902, ch. 296.

17. The supervisors of elections shall furnish to each board of registry
for the purpose of such registration two registry books, which it shall be
the duty of said officers of registration to protect and keep safe, and the
said supervisors shall designate two of said officers appointed from dif-
ferent political parties, each of whom shall be charged with the custody of
one of said books during the intervals between the sessions of the board of
registry until the return of said books to the supervisors of elections, as
hereinafter provided. Such registry books shall be prepared substantially
in the following form: