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An. Code, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 16. 1901, ch. 2.

1910, ch. 2, sec. 236 (p. 105). 1916, ch. 158, sec. 17.

1920 (special session), ch. 1, sec. 17. 1922, ch. 488.

18. 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 the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and shall pro-
ceed to make a general registration of all voters in its precinct 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 8 o'clock P. M., on the Tues-
day aforesaid. In the counties the hours of session shall be from 8 o'clock
A. M. to 8 o'clock P. M. One of the officers of registration shall administer
to all persons who shall personally 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 questions
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 reg-
istry book and all the facts of his application shall be therein stated as
herein provided, whether he be entitled to vote or not. If it shall be de-
termined 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 regis-
tration shall be registered as qualified voters. (5) The headings to the
registry books shall be so prepared that the registry shall be made alpha-
betical, 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 follows: (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 applicant
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