32 REGISTRATION OP VOTERS. [ART. 4.

STATUTES.
ARTICLE IV.

REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

1 Appointment of registers, oath 2 What recorded in the books of registration

3. Clerk of court to issue certificate of regis- tration when requested

REVISION OF REGISTRATION.

4 Correction of lists	15 Copies of lists for sheriff and clerk of
S Registers to obtain books of registration	court
from clerks of courts	16 Residence required
6 Time and place of Bitting, publication of	17 Powers of registers
notice	18 New or special election, time and place of
7 Duties of registers, oath of applicant for	sitting of register, publication of notice
registration	19 Method of procedure
8 Preliminaries to striking from or adding	20 Police officers to preserve order in Balti-
to the list	more city
9 Census of voters furnished by police com-	21 Clerks of courts to preserve the lists and
missioners	books
10 Appeal from decision of register, duty of	22 Sheriff to safely keep copies of lists
State's attorneys and counsel of regis-	23 Duty of judges of election in regard to
ters	the lists
11 Lists to be made and published	24 Compensation, expenses, how paid, coun-
12 Revision, publication of notice	sel of registers
13 Manner of revising	25 Neglect of duty, penalty
14 Revised lists to be made and published

1874, c 490, s 2	1. The governor shall nominate and, by and with the advice of
Appointment of registers	the Senate, appoint at every regular session of the legislature, one
	person in each ward of Baltimore city, and one person in each
	election district in every county, voters in said wards and districts
23 Md 512, 532	respectively, to be styled officers of registration, who shall perform
	the duties imposed on them by this article, and all such officers,
33 Md 142	before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take and
	subscribe, before the clerk of some one of the courts of Baltimore
	city, and the clerks of the Circuit Court of the several counties re-
Oath	spectively, the oath prescribed in the sixth section of the third
	article of the Constitution.
1874, c 490, s 8	2. In registering any person who shall apply to said officers of
What recorded in the books of	registration to be registered, said officers shall first record the name
registration	of such person in the proper column of said books of registration,
	and second, administer to him the oath as directed in this article, and
	enter in the column of said books whether he has or has not been sworn;
	third, his age, fourth, the place of his birth; fifth, his residence;
	sixth, the time he has resided in Baltimore city or the county in which
	he applies to be registered; seventh, if naturalized, the date of his
	final paper or certificate of naturalization, and the court, county and
	State where issued; eighth, if disqualified by non-age, non-resi-
	dence, alienage, or non compos mentis, or conviction of bribery, or
	larceny or other infamous crime, as described in the second and
	third sections of the first article of the Constitution, the cause of