ELECTIONS 1411

An. Code, 1924, sec. 21. 1912, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 18. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 17.

1937, ch. 95, sec. 21.

22. It shall be the duty of the Police Commissioner of Baltimore
City, between the first day of September and the commencement of regis-
tration in each year, to and including the year 1939, and between the.
fifteenth day of April and the commencement of registration in the year
1940, to cause a census as nearly as possible accurate, to be made by mem-
bers of the force under his command, of the legal voters resident in each
precinct of the said city. The said census shall give the address of each
person known or supposed by the officer of police taking it to be a legal voter
of the city, and a copy thereof for their precinct shall be furnished by the
said Police Commissioner to each Board of Registry when they meet on
the first day of their sessions, as hereinbefore provided. And the officer
of police taking the said census shall in every case be assigned to duty
at the office of registration in the precinct where he took the said census,
unless, for reasons stated in writing by the Marshal of Police, and fur-
nished to the Board of Registry in question, such assignment shall be
impracticable or against the public interest.

After the first day of January, 1940, it shall be the duty of said Police
Commissioner to secure from the several patrolmen (a) the name of every
person above the age of twenty-one years who shall have removed to or from
any permanent residence, whether in a dwelling-house, lodging-house, apart-
ment or hotel, upon their respective posts, (b) the sex of such person, (c)
the color of such person, (d) the address from which such person shall
have moved, (e) the address to which such person shall have moved, and
(f) the date of such removal, and to furnish information as to the above
facts, at least twice in every month, beginning with the month of January,
1940, to the Board of Supervisors of Election of Baltimore City.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 22. 1912, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 19. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 18.

23. Any voter shall be permitted to be present at the place of registra-
tion in any precinct of his county or city, and shall have the right to chal-
lenge any applicant, and when challenged such applicant shall be carefully
questioned by the board of registry touching the facts which entitle him
to register in such precinct, and thereupon, if a majority of the board is
convinced that such applicant is a qualified voter, he shall be entered as
qualified. Any person claiming to be a voter of any precinct, and who,
upon application, is denied the right to be registered as a qualified voter
in said precinct may make and sign an application in writing, under oath,
to the court, as hereinafter provided, in substance in the following form:
"J, ————, do solemnly swear that I did,' on ————, make application
to the board of registry of the ———— precinct or district of ———— county
(or the ———— precinct of the ———— ward of the city of ————), and
that said board refused to register me as a qualified voter in said precinct;
that I am a duly qualified voter entitled to vote in said precinct at the next
election."

When right of a woman to register in Baltimore City is challenged by a resident
of that city, in her presence, and a memorandum submitted in support of such challenge,
and board after a conference overrules the challenge and allows registration, formal
entries thereof being made, the court of common pleas of Baltimore City has juris-
diction, in the light of this section and secs. 24 and 29, to entertain a petition for a
correction of the registry. Notice. 19th amendment to the Federal Constitution was
validly adopted. Leser v. Board of Registration, 139 Md. 57. (Affirmed in Leser v.
Garnett, 258 U. S. 130.)