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1935 Cumulative Supplement to the Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland
Volume 378, Page 408   View pdf image (33K)
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408 ARTICLE 33.

shall make the entries therein required by this Article, and the questions
. as to qualifications shall be asked by the other officers of said Board.

(3) The name and age of every applicant shall be entered in such reg-
istry book and all the facts1 of his application shall be therein stated as
herein provided, whether he be entitled to vote or not. If it shall be

determined by the Board that he is not a qualified voter in the precinct,
then an entry shall be made in the appropriate column "No, " and a line
shall be drawn in red ink through his name and through all the other entries
on the line on which his name is written, but so that the name and said

other entries shall remain legible; and if qualified, the entry shall be made
in the same column "Yes. " (4) Only persons constitutionally qualified
to vote in the precinct at the next election and personally applying for
registration shall be registered as qualified voters. (5) The headings to
the registry books shall be so prepared that the registry shall be made alpha-
betical, according to the surname of each person applying, and so that the
residence and post office address of such persons shall appear in the first

column. The registers shall be ruled, and one name shall be written on
each line, but no name shall be written between the lines. The entry shall
be as follows: (A) Under the column "Residence and Post-office address, "
the name and number of the street, avenue or other location of the dwelling
if there be a definite number, and if there shall not be a number, or if there
shall be duplicate numbers, such clear and definite description of the place

of such dwelling as shall enable it to be readily ascertained; if there shall
be more than one house at the number given by the applicant as his place
of residence, it shall be stated in which house he resides and if there be
more than one family residing in said house, either the floor on which he
resides, or the number or location of the room or rooms occupied by him
shall be stated, every floor below the level of the street or ground being
designated as the basement; the floor upon or first above such level being

designated as the first floor, and each floor above that as the second, or such
other floor as it may be. In county precincts it shall only be necessary to
give such general description as may be sufficient for identification. (B)
Under the column "Name" the name of the applicant, writing the surname
first, and full given or Christian name after. (C) Under the column
"Age, " the age of the applicant. (D) Under the column "Nativity" the
State, Country, empire, kingdom or dominion, as the fact shall be. (E)
Under the column "Color" the words "White" or "Colored, " as the case
may be. (F) Under the sub-divisions of the general column "Terms of
Residence, " the period by day, month or year stated by the applicant.
(G) Under the column "Naturalized, " the word "Yes" or "No" or "Na-
tive, " as the facts may be. (H) Under the column "Date of Naturaliza-

tion, " the date of naturalization, if naturalized. No naturalization papers
need be produced if a majority of the board are satisfied that for three
years next preceding the applicant claiming to be naturalized has been a
registered voter in this State, and has actually voted on such previous
registration; but they shall note his answers to the questions, when and in




 

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