ART. — .] REGISTRATION.

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said officers of registration next ensuing, and said
board of police commissioners shall detail police officers
sufficient to preserve order at the places where said
officers of registration for Baltimore city are discharg-
ing the duties of their office.

28. Said clerks of courts and said register of wills
shall issue under seal to any person applying to' them
whose name appears on the list of qualified voters in
their offices respectively, a certificate that said appli-
cant is a registered qualified voter, which certificate
shall, upon presentation to the judges of election entitle
the holder to vote at the precinct or district at which

Ibid. s 17.
Certificate.

he offers to vote, provided that he has satisfied said
judges that he is the person named in said certificate,
and that he has acquired the residence necessary to
entitle him to vote at said precinct or district, and that
he has delivered to said judges said certificate to be
filed with the lists of voters or books of registration for

Proviso.

said ward or district; and provided further, that no
registration of voters has occurred in said ward or dis-
trict since the holder of said certificate had obtained a
residence therein; and said clerk or register of wills
shall record the name of every person to whom such a
certificate has been issued, and deliver to the officers of
registration at the next ensuing sitting of said officers,
a certified copy of said names, so that thereby said
officers may be informed that such person intended to

Proviso.

change his residence, but residence shall not be consid-
ered as changed until six months after actual removal
from the city, county, legislative, congressional or
electoral district in which a voter has been registered.

Change of resi-
dence.

29. Said clerks and register of wills shall receive
said copies of lists of qualified voters and file the same
in their offices as other papers are filed, and said clerks
shall receive and preserve the books of registration,
and said clerks and registers in the city of Baltimore

Ibid. s. 18.
Clerks, &c., to
file copies of
lists, &c.

shall record said lists, and said clerks shall permit
examination of the lists of voters and books of regis-
tration in their custody, and said register of wills shall
permit examination of the lists of voters in their cus-

Records.