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opinions, and by handbills set up in such public places in each registration
district as each of said officers of registration shall select in their respec-
tive districts.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159K.

247. The said respective officers of registration to whom, when sitting
at any time appointed by this article, and between the hours appointed by
this article for the registration of qualified voters in their proper regis-
tries of voters, or for the revision of their registry or registries of voters,
an application is made by any person personally appearing before such
officers of registration that his name shall be registered as a qualified voter
in any ward of which they are respectively officers of registration, shall
thereupon record in its proper column in each of the proper duplicate regis-
tries of voters for the wards of which they are respectively officers of regis-
tration, and in which the person applying to be registered may have his
legal residence, in the proper alphabetical place of the surname of the
applicant; first, the exact name of such person, recording the surname and
the first Christian name of the said applicant in full second, the color of
the applicant; third, they shall next administer to such person an oath or
affirmation that he will make true answers to such questions as they, the
said officers of registration, may propound to him, touching the right of
said applicant to be registered, and to vote in the ward in which he has ap-
plied to be registered, and shall enter in the proper column, opposite the
name of the applicant, the fact that such applicant has been so sworn or
affirmed. They shall next enter in the proper column in each of said
duplicate registries, opposite to the name of the applicant, after making
full inquiry, the following particulars, namely: fourth, the age of the
applicant; fifth, the place of his birth; sixth, the place of his residence
or domicile, recording the street, square, avenue, road or lane on or near
which he may so reside, and giving the number of his dwelling house, if
it has any number, or such description as shall be sufficient to identify
with certainty such place of residence or domicile and enable it to be
readily found; seventh, the time such applicant has resided in the city
of Hagerstown and in the ward in which he applies to be registered;
eighth, if naturalized, the date of his final papers or certificate of natural-
ization and a minute of the court by which the same was issued; ninth
and tenth, if it is found upon such examination that the applicant pos-
sesses, or before the day of the election next ensuing will possess the
requisite qualifications, under the Constitution of Maryland, the charter
of Hagerstown and the laws made in pursuance thereof, that is to say,
that he is of the age of twenty-one years or upward, or that he will be
of the age of twenty-one years on or before the day of election next ensuing,
and that he has been a resident of Hagerstown for one year, and of the
ward in which he may offer to vote for six months next preceding the
election, and that he is not disqualified under the provisions of the sec-
ond and third sections of the first article of the Constitution of this
State, and that the said person has not been registered under the provi-
sions of this article in any other ward of said city of Hagerstown, the