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REGISTRATION. [ART. — .

ever, that before registering as a qualified voter, any
person so applying the said officer shall administer

Their oath.

to him the oath prescribed in the fourth section of
the first article of the constitution, or the voter's
oath prescribed in the first section of the said act
of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, chapter seven-
teen, accordingly as the person applying shall elect
to take one or the other of said oaths, and no person
who refuses to take one or the other of said oaths
shall be registered as a qualified voter.

Ibid. s 4.
Additions to
registry.

16. In making the addition to said registry of
qualified voters, the officers of registration shall first
record the name of every person so applying ; and
second, administer to him the oath as directed in the
preceding section of said article, and enter in the

Facts to be
entered in
registration
books.

proper column of said registration books the fact
whether he has or not been sworn ; third, his age ;
fourth, the place of his birth ; fifth, the time he has
resided in the city of Baltimore or the county in
which he is to be registered ; sixth, if naturalized,
the date of his final papers, or certificate of natu-
ralization, and the court, county and state whence
issued; seventh, if disqualified by means of non-
age, non-residence, alienage, lunacy or non compos
mentis, or bribery as described in the fifth section
of the first article of the constitution, the cause of
such disqualification ; and eighth, the name of quali-
fied voters, omitting from said eighth column the
names of persons so as above disqualified, and insert-
ing in lieu thereof the names of the witnesses, or in
case of infamy or bribery, a statement of the record
proof thereof, and in what court the conviction was
had, or other proof by which such disqualification
was established.

Ibid s 5.
Times of meet-
ing

17. It shall be the duty of such officers of regis-
tration to sit at some place convenient to the voters
in the several wards of the city of Baltimore and the
several election districts of the counties, for ten days
immediately preceding the third day prior to any
election hereafter to be held in this state, whether