1408 ARTICLE 33

An. Code, 1924, sec. 18. 1912, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 16. 1901, ch. 2.

1910, ch. 2, sec. 236 (p. 105). 1916, ch. 158, sec. 17. 1920 (special session), ch. 1,

sec. 17. 1922. ch. 488. 1931, ch. 121. 1937, ch. 75. 1939, ch. 638, sec. 18.

19. On Tuesday six weeks preceding the election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1896, which shall occur
after the enactment of this Article, each Board of Registry shall meet at
the place designated by the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and shall
proceed to make a general registration of all voters in its precinct or dis-
trict, as the case may be. The proceedings of each Board of Registry
shall be as follows: (1) They shall open the registry in the City of Balti-
more at 2 o'clock P. M., and continue in said session until 10 o'clock P. M.
In the counties the hours of session shall be from 9 o'clock A. M. to 9 o'clock
P. M. except that in Wicomico County the said Board of Registry shall
hold a session from 10 o'clock A. M. to 7 o'clock P. M., and that in Talbot
County the said Board of Registry shall hold a session from 8 o'clock A. M.
to Y o'clock P. M. One of the officers of registration shall administer to
all persons who shall personally apply to register the following oath or
affirmation: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will fully and
truly answer all such questions as shall be put to you touching your place
of residence, name, place of birth, your qualifications as a voter, and your
right as such to register and vote under the laws of this State." (2) The
two officers of registration designated by the Supervisors to have custody
of the two registry books, or such of their colleagues as such of them may
respectively ask to temporarily replace him in the discharge of his duty
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
registry book and all the facts of his application shall be therein stated as
herein provided, whether he be entitled to vote or not. If it shall be deter-
mined 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 alphabetical,
according to the surname of each person applying, and so that the residence
and post office address of such person 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 resi-
dence, 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