ART. 4. ] REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

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fication or disqualification to be registered as a qualified voter, " but

nothing herein contained, shall be construed to authorize said regis-

ters to ask any questions touching any cause of disqualification not

expressly enumerated in the Constitution of the State of Maryland,

or of the United States.

8. Said officer of registration shall, before striking from said list

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of qualified voters and from said books of registration the name of

Preliminaries

any registered person, diligently inquire and accurately ascertain

to striking from
or adding to the

that said registered person does not possess or before the election

lists.

next ensuing will not possess the requisite qualifications to entitle

him to be registered as a qualified voter in such precinct or election

district, or that such person is disqualified under the provisions of

the second and third sections of the first article of the Constitution,

and if it shall appear that said registered person does not possess

or will not possess said qualifications, and that he is so disqualified,

then said officer shall strike the name of such person from said list

of qualified voters and said books of registration, but if it shall

appear otherwise, then such officer shall not strike the name of such

person from said books of registration and from said list of quali-

fied voters; and before registering as a qualified voter any person

who has applied to said officers of registration to be registered as a

qualified voter, said officer shall diligently inquire and accurately

ascertain that such person possesses or will possess before the elec-

tion next ensuing, the requisite qualifications to entitle him to be

registered as a qualified voter, and that he is not disqualified under

the provisions of the second and third sections of the first article

of the Constitution, and if it shall appear that said person, so ap-

plying, possesses or will possess, before said day of election, said

qualifications, and if not so disqualified then said officers of regis-

tration shall register the name of such person as a qualified voter,

but they shall not register the name of any person who does not or

will not possess said qualifications, or is so disqualified, and when

any person applying as aforesaid for registration, shall have been

previously registered within this State, the officer of registration to

whom such application is made, before registering such person shall

demand and receive from him a certificate of his previous legal

registration, and such certificate of previous registration shall be

cancelled by the officer who shall register such person anew.

9. In order to enable the said register to revise the list of regis-

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tered voters in each of the precincts of the respective wards of

Baltimore city, the board of police commissioners of Baltimore

Census of voters

city shall, within one month before the time hereinbefore provided

furnished by
police commis-

for the revision of the list of registered voters, cause a census of

sioners

the legal voters in each of the voting precincts into which the sev-

eral wards of Baltimore city shall then be divided, to be made by

their police officers and returned by said officers to the office of the

board of said police commissioners, and the said board shall fur-

nish a copy of the list of voters so returned as residents in each