4752 ARTICLE 22.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159B. 1896, ch. 27, sec. 159B. 1920 (Special Session), ch. 4,
sec. 159B. 1927, ch. 680, sec. 159B.

236. The Governor shall by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, on or before the third Monday in February, 1929, and every four
years thereafter, appoint one person as officer of registration in each dis-
trict or precinct of the City of Hagerstown, who shall be resident of the
district or precinct of which he or she is appointed, and the said officer
of registration shall register in books to be prepared for the purpose, all
citizens above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have the requisite
qualifications to entitle them to vote for Mayor. Every person who shall
have resided in the State of Maryland and in said Hagerstown for twelve
months, and in the ward or precinct wherein he or she offers to register
six months next preceding the election, shall be entitled to be registered
in any of said wards or precincts and shall remove therefrom to any other
of said wards or precincts and remain therein, he or she shall be entitled
to have his or her name remain upon the registry list of the said ward or
precinct from which he or she shall remove, as aforesaid, and to vote
therein until he or she shall reside in the ward or precinct to which he
or she shall have removed and remain therein a sufficient time to entitle
him or her to register therein. And wherever in the Charter of Hagers-
town or any of the amendments thereto, the word he occurs it shall be
construed as including the word she, or wherever in said charter or any of
the amendments thereto the word masculine is used, it shall be construed
as including the word feminine.

Rauth v. Ward, 86 Md. 202.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159C.

237. Each of the said officers of registration shall have in addition to
the other powers hereinafter conferred upon them, the power of a justice
of the peace to preserve order and enforce obedience to his lawful com-
mands at or around his place of registration; to keep the access to such
place open and unobstructed, to prevent and suppress riots, tumults, vio-
lence and disorder, and all other improper practices at, around or near
to his place of registration, tending to intimidation or to the obstruction
of the work of registration, or the revision of the registration, and to pro-
tect and keep safe the registries of voters hereinafter referred to while
in his custody and possession; he may compel the presence of witnesses
before him while sitting as an officer of registration for all purposes con-
nected with the performance of the duties of his office by summons or
attachment; he may, while sitting as such officer of registration, commit
for trial any person committing at, or around his place of registration any
offense forbidden by this article; he shall have the power to issue any of
said summons, attachments or commitments to any police officer of the
city of Hagerstown; all such processes shall be served by said officer in
the same manner as if they were issued by the judge of a court of record
having jurisdiction of the subject matter, or by a justice of the peace
exercising police powers within respective jurisdiction.