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so registered shall be entitled to vote at all primary and general elections
held thereafter; provided that nothing in this section shall apply to Balti-
more City, nor affect the law now in effect governing the registration of
voters therein.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 18. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 17.

21. It shall he the duty of the board of police commissioners of Balti-
more city, between the first day of September and the commencement of
registration in each year, to cause a census, as nearly as possible accurate,
to be made by members of the force under their command, of the legal
voters resident in each, precinct of the said city. The said census shall give
the address of each person known or supposed by the officer of police tak-
ing it to be a legal voter of the city, and a copy thereof for their precinct
"shall be furnished by the said police commissioners to each board of reg-
istry when they meet on the first day of their sessions, as hereinbefore
provided. And the officer of police taking the said census shall in every
case be assigned to duty at the office of registration in the precinct where
he took the said census, unless, for reasons stated in writing by the marshal
of police, and furnished to the board of registry in question, such assign-
ment shall be impracticable or against the public interest.

An. Code, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 19. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 18.

22. Any voter shall be permitted to be present at the place of registra-
tion in any precinct of his county or city, and shall have the right to chal-
lenge any applicant, and when challenged such applicant shall be carefully
questioned by the board of registry touching the facts which entitle him
to register in such precinct, and thereupon, if a majority of the board is
convinced that such applicant is a qualified voter, he shall be entered as
qualified. Any person claiming to be a voter of any precinct, and who,
upon application, is denied the right to be registered as a qualified voter
in said precinct may make and sign an application in writing, under oath,
to the court, as hereinafter provided, in substance in the following form:
" I, ————, do solemnly swear that I did, on ————, make application
to the board of registry of the ———— precinct or district of ———— county
(or the ———— precinct of the ———— ward of the city of ————), and
that said board refused to register me as a qualified voter in said precinct;
that I am a duly qualified voter entitled to vote in said precinct at the next
election."

When right of a woman to register in Baltimore city is challenged by a resident
of that city, in her presence, and a memorandum submitted in support of such
challenge, and board after a conference overrules the challenge and allows registra-
tion, formal entries thereof being made, the court of common pleas of Baltimore city
has jurisdiction, in the light of this section and secs. 23 and 27, to entertain a peti-
tion for a correction of the registry. Notice. 19th amendment to the Federal
Constitution was validly adopted. Leser v. Board of Registration, 139 Md. 57.
(Affirmed in Leser v. Garnett, 258 U. S. 130.)

An. Code, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 20. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 19. 1914, ch. 726.

23. On the Tuesdays, respectively, six and four weeks preceding such
regular election, and on the Wednesday next following said Tuesdays,