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Supplement to the Maryland Code, Containing the Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Session of 1870
Volume 386, Page 161   View pdf image (33K)
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ART. — .] REGISTRATION.

before the election next ensuing, or who are disquali-
fied under the provisions of the second and third sec-
tions of the first Article of the constitution, and to

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register the name of every person who shall apply to
them to be registered, who shall satisfy said officers of
registration that they possess, or will possess the requi-
site constitutional qualifications before the election next
ensuing, and who are not disqualified under the second
and third sections of the first Article of the constitu-
tion, and also the name of every person whom a judge
of a court to which an appeal has been taken from the
decision of said officers of registration has decided to
be entitled to be registered as qualified voters.

Registering
names.

23. Immediately after the expiration of the three
days on which said officers of registration of Baltimore
city, Baltimore county and Allegany county, and of
the two days on which the said officers of registration
in the remaining counties of the state sat to correct said
books of registration and said lists, they shall proceed
without delay to make or cause to be made, an alpha-
betical list of the names of the qualified voters in their
respective wards and districts, and the list of Baltimore
city shall be arranged according to precincts, and the
name of every voter shall be placed in the list of the
precinct in which he resides, and for the counties where
districts are divided into precincts, otherwise by dis-
tricts ; the residence of each person shall be set oppo-
site his name, and every person whose name appears in
said corrected lists of qualified voters shall be entitled

Ibid s 12
Lists of quali-
fied voters.

to vote at the polls in said district or precinct of the
ward, for which his name appears, at every election
held thereat until after another registration of voters
has been duly published, except those persons who
shall become disqualified by change of residence, and
said officer of registration shall cause to be published
two alphabetical lists, one of which shall comprise the
names of those persons stricken from the books of re-
gistration, and the other one of said lists shall com-
prise the names of the persons which said officers have
registered for two successive weeks, and said officers of

Where to vote.



 
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