1334 ARTICLE 33.

the word " declined." And in all primary elections thereafter held, any
person so registered as affiliated with a given political party shall have the
right to vote the official ballot of that party and of no- other; and at any
intermediate registration subsequent to the close of the next general regis-
tration, such voter may appear before the board of registry and, upon his
identity being established to the satisfaction of the majority of the board
of registry, to make, alter or strike out any entry in the column headed
" party affiliations " opposite his name in the registry; it shall be the duty
of the board of registry to enter in the column headed " remarks " the fact
that such entry was made, altered or stricken out, and the date thereof.

Any registered voter who has declined to affiliate with any political party
and opposite whose name under the column " party affiliation " is written
the word " declined," or the word " independent" or any other word
showing a failure to affiliate with any political party, and who has not
appeared before the board of registry as hereinbefore set forth and
affiliated with some political party prior to the primary election shall not be
permitted to vote at such primary election or any subsequent primary elec-
tion until he has so affiliated with the party in whose primary he desires
to vote.

Construing this section in connection with sec. 194, where a voter is entered
" declined " he cannot be said to have " had his affiliation registered." Purpose of
these sections. An unaffiliated voter, so far as a primary election is concerned, is
in practically the same situation as one who is unregistered. The " supplemental"
registration directed to be held by the Baltimore city charter on the first and second
Mondays of April preceding municipal election in May, is an " intermediate registra-
tion " within meaning of this section; a registered voter who is entered " declined "
may have that entry cancelled and declare his affiliation at such registration with
the right to vote in subsequent primary elections. Murphy v. Wachter, 126 Md. 564.

An. Code, sec. 187. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160J (p. 123).

202. For the performance of the duties imposed upon them by this
sub-title, the supervisors of elections of, Baltimore city shall be entitled
to receive, in addition to the annual salary of $1,500 allowed them by
section 3 of article 33, the further, annual salary of one thousand dollars
each; and the supervisors of elections of the several counties, in addition
to the annual salary of one hundred dollars each allowed them by section 3
of article 33, shall be entitled to receive an additional compensation, to be
paid by the county commissioners of the several counties, amounting to
twenty-five per cent, of the salary now received by them under said section
in the counties, and such further sum for expenses incurred in the per-
formance of the duties imposed on them by this sub-title as the several
boards of county commissioners shall allow. The supervisors of elections of
Baltimore city, in addition to the sum allowed to them by section 1 of
article 33, as compensation for their clerk and messenger and other tem-
porary assistance, such as is mentioned in said section 7 of said article 33,
shall be allowed the further sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and the super-
visors of elections of the several counties shall be entitled to receive for
such additional clerical or other assistance as they may need for the per-
formance of the duties imposed upon them by this sub-title, a sum not
exceeding twenty-five per cent, of the present salary for that purpose in the