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no officer of registration shall charge or receive any compensa-
tion for any service performed under this article, except such as
is provided by this article.

1882, ch. 22, sec. 4.

4. Each of said officers of registration, before entering upon
the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath or affir-
mation prescribed in the sixth section of the first article of the
constitution of this State; the said oath or affirmation shall be
taken and subscribed by each officer of registration appointed to
act in the city of Baltimore, before the clerk of the superior
court of Baltimore city, and the said oath and affirmation shall
be taken and subscribed by each officer of registration appointed
to act within a county of this State, before the clerk of the circuit
court for the county in which he is appointed to act; said respec-
tive oaths or affirmations shall be entered and subscribed in a test
book, to be by said respective clerks provided for that purpose.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, ch. 104.

5. The term of office of each and every person so appointed to
act as an officer of registration in any county of this State, shall
commence on the first Monday in May next ensuing his appoint-
ment, and shall continue for two years unless such officer shall
be sooner removed from office for incompetency or misconduct,
or become disqualified by sickness from performing the duties of
his office. In case it is made known to or found by the gover-
nor that any officer of registration, appointed by him for any of
said counties, is or may be unable to perform his duties under
this article, within the time appointed for the performance of
the same, the governor shall have the power to appoint a capable
assistant to said officer of registration, to serve until the registry
or registries of voters and poll-books or lists of qualified and
registered voters then in charge of the said officer of registration
shall be completed; such assistant officer of registration so to be
appointed shall possess the same qualifications required of the
officer of registration whom he may be appointed to assist, and
shall possess all the powers of said officer; but in all controverted
questions, when both officers are present, in which the opinion of
the officer and assistant officer of registration may differ, the