ART. — .] REGISTRATION.

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state, federal or municipal, and whether general or
special, from nine o'clock A. M. to 5 o'clock P. M.,
for the purpose of discharging the duties imposed

on them by this article, and they shall give notice
of the time and place of meeting at least ten days
before the day of their first meeting, by publication
in three newspapers in the city of Baltimore, one of
which shall be published in the German language,
and in one newspaper in each county in which a
newspaper is published, having the largest circula-
tion, as may appear by their subscription books, the
editor or publisher to furnish the same under oath
to said officer of registration, and also by hand-bills
posted at such public places as they may select ID
the several precincts of the city of Baltimore ana
election districts of the several counties, and in case
of making a change in the place of meeting, they
shall at once publish in said papers notice of such
change, said notices and publications to be paid for
by the mayor and city council of Baltimore and the
county commissioners of the several counties.

Notice to be
given.

18. As soon as they shall have closed their sit-
tings on the third day preceding any election, the
said officers of registration shall immediately proceed
to make or cause to be made an alphabetical list of
the qualified voters, and the said list shall then be
finally closed for that election, and two fair copies
thereof shall be made, one of which shall be lodged
by the officers of registration with the clerk of the
circuit court of the county, and the clerk of the
superior court of Baltimore city, and the other de-
livered to the judges of election at or before the
opening of the polls on the morning of the election;
and in the city of Baltimore the said officers of regis-
tration for the several wards shall separate the lists
into precincts, and prepare their lists of voters accord-
ing to the sub-divisions of their respective wards into
precincts, designating the election precinct of the
ward in which the voters are or shall be respec-
tively entitled to vote, and shall deliver one copy

Ibid s. 6
Lists of quali-
fied voters.