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14. The Governor shall appoint three persons as officers of
registration, whose duty it shall be to register the soldiers of this
State in the military service of the United States, and such persons
in the naval service of the United States as may be stationed at
convenient and accessible posts, who are absent from their regu-
lar places of voting on account of such service; and it shall be
the duty of said officers of registration to visit the different regi-
ments, camps and hospitals, or other posts where said soldiers
may be, for the purpose of ascertaining and registering all such
as shall or may be qualified to vote according to the provisions
of the Constitution and Laws of this State, and said officers of
registration shall perform said duty in like manner as is required
in other sections of this act, and shall return their books or lists
of registration for the different counties and the city of Balti-
more, to such officers of registration in the said city or counties,
as the Governor shall designate, on or before the first clay of
September, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and it shall be the
duty of the officers of registration to whom such returns shall
be made, to cause the names so returned to be registered in the
several election districts of their respective counties or wards in
the city of Baltimore, in which said soldiers reside or are entitled
to vote; and in addition to the per diem allowed by this act to
officers of registration, they shall be allowed their necessary
traveling expenses for the discharge of the duties imposed by
this act.

15. It shall be the duty of said officers of registration, after
having received the register of said soldiers, to furnish a certified
copy of the duly qualified voters on such lists to the county
commissioners of the several counties and the Mayor of the city
of Baltimore, on or before the fifth day of October, eighteen
hundred and sixty-five, to be by them or him transmitted to the
judges appointed to take the votes of the said soldiers, as directed
by law.

16. The Governor shall cause to be prepared suitable books
for the registration of names and facts required by this act, to
be furnished to said officers of registration in each ward in the
city of Baltimore, and election district of the several counties, at