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where there is any difference between them. Each of the said officers hav-
ing the custody of any of said registers shall then sign his name or initials
immediately under the last name registered under each letter in the book
kept by him, so that no new names can be added without discovery. The
said board of Registry shall keep, on blanks to be provided for that pur-
pose by the Board of Supervisors of Elections, an alphabetical list of
names, addresses and color of all persons registered, and a separate list of
all persons refused registration, and of all persons whose names are erased
from the registry. In the City of Baltimore, at the end of each session,
they shall deliver these lists to the police officers on duty at the registra-
tion office, and the list shall be delivered by the said officer to the Police
Board, and by the Police Board to the Board of Supervisors of Election in
the forenoon of the day following the said sitting. Nothing in this Sec-
tion 18 shall affect the registration in the counties heretofore made under,
this Article.

Mandamus will not be granted to compel officers of registration to enter on
their books the fact that an applicant cannot read or write. Board of registry is
not a perpetual board or continuously in office. Summerson v. Schilling, 94 Md. 582.

The entries of the officers of registration on their books are findings of officers
charged with duty of ascertaining their correctness, and should not be disturbed
until their falsity is established. Langhammer v. Munter, 80 Md. 518.

A party applying for registration under sec. 39, should be questioned in accordance
with this section. If, however, he is not so questioned, upon a petition to strike his
name off list, he may prove that he is entitled to be registered. Davis v. O'Berry,
93 Md. 710.

A person who once lived in a ward, is entitled to register and vote there until he
acquires a residence in another place. Jones v. Skinner, 87 Md. 560.

Where a foreigner applies to the registers sitting in September, stating that he
would be of age October 13th following and would then apply for naturalization and
present his papers to the registers, he is not entitled to register under this section—
see sec. 25 and notes. Barret v. Taylor, 85 Md. 175.

An unmarried man, a clerk on a steamboat, who sleeps on the boat, is not entitled
to register in home port of vessel. Howard v. Skinner, 87 Md. 557.

Cited but not construed in Meloy v. Scott, 83 Md. 376.

1924, ch. 299.

19. A female applicant for registration as a voter shall not be required
to state her exact age, but it shall be sufficient for said applicant to state,
in answer to any and all questions relating to her age, that she will be at
least 21 years of age on the regular election day next succeeding the day
of registration, and entry shall be made accordingly under the column
" Age " of the registry books, anything in Section 18 of this Article or
in any other section of this Article to the contrary notwithstanding.

An. Code, sec. 17A. 1916, ch. 569.

20. On the Tuesday preceding any primary election to be held in any
year in this State and which shall occur after the enactment of this law,
each Board of Registration shall meet at the place designated by its Board
of Supervisors of Election, and shall proceed in the manner set forth in
Section 18 hereof, to make a registration of all the voters in its precinct
or district, as the case may be, who have not previously registered and
who may be entitled to vote at the next General Election and shall present
themselves before said Board for registration, and such person or persons