1414 ARTICLE 33

Registrars will not be directed by mandamus to make entries in registration books
after their control of such books has ceased. Summerson v. Schilling, 94 Md. 590.

This section referred to in construing sec. 29. Collier v. Carter, 100 Md. 385.

Cited but not construed in Wilson v. Carter, 103 Md. 123; Ticer v. Thomas, 74
Md. 343; Bangs v. Fey; 159 Md. 549.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 26. 1912, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 23. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 22. 1914, ch. 723.

1916, ch. 158, sec. 24. 1918, ch. 247, sec. 24. 1922, ch. 155. 1933, ch. 396.

1937, ch. 95, sec. 26. 1939, ch. 638, sec. 26.

27. At the end of the last session above provided for, the said Board
of Registry shall compare and correct the two registers and make them
agree, and the officers having them respectively in their custody shall then
immediately under the last name registered under each letter of the regis-
ters sign their names, so that no other names can be added without discov-
ery; all of said officers of registration shall then subscribe, at the end of
each register, a certificate, in substance, in the words following: "We,
the undersigned, constituting the Board of Registry in..............

precinct or district of............ county, or in............ precinct of

the............ ward of the city of............. in the State of Mary-
land, do jointly and severally certify that, at the general registration of
voters in said precinct, closed on this........day of.............there

were registered by us, in said precinct, the names which in this book are
entered, and that the number of registered and qualified voters was and is
the number of..................."

Dated........................

(Signature)

During the next day the Board of Registry shall return the two registers
to the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and in the counties the said Board
of Registry shall, at the same time, return the alphabetical list of names,
party affiliation, color and addresses of the persons registered and erased
by them, and in Baltimore City the Boards of Registry shall, at the
same time, return the list made by them, at their last session; and in the
counties the said Boards of Supervisors of Elections shall at once cause
said alphabetical lists to be printed in handbill form in long-primer type,
and copies thereof posted, within three days after the return of said lists,
as aforesaid in such manner that they may be easily read, in at least ten
prominent places in the respective precincts. The Board of Supervisors in
the several counties shall cause to be printed at least ten extra copies of all
the handbills prepared by them, respectively, under this Article, and as
many more copies as may be required to supply al! demands for any of them
made, with the tender of the price before the printing thereof, which
copies they shall sell to the public at five cents per copy, the proceeds of
said sales to be applied towards paying the expenses of printing the same.
The said Boards of Supervisors in the counties shall furnish to any one
making written application therefor, within ten days after such appli-
cation has been received, or in less time, if practicable, a certified copy,
under their hands, or the names, addresses,: color and ages of all persons
registered in any election precinct or district of said county, for the sum of
half a cent for each voter's name on said registry, which said sum shall
be applied towards paying the expenses of making said certified copies.
It shall be the duty of the said Supervisors to make proper provisions in
advance, so that they will be able to make and furnish such copies when
ordered, as hereinbefore required. But the provisions of this section in
reference to the printing and posting of copies of the alphabetical list