624 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.

decision of the principal officer of registration shall prevail. The
term of office of the officers of registration for the city of Balti-
more shall be as prescribed by Article 4 of the Public Local
Laws, title, City of Baltimore, sub-title, " Elections."

1882, ch. 22, sec 6

6. Each and every person appointed as aforesaid to act as an
officer of registration, whether as principal or assistant officer,
shall qualify as such officer of registration forthwith, and shall
perform the duties of the office for which he was appointed for
the time for which he was appointed, unless removed from office
for incompetency or misconduct, or because disqualified by sick-
ness. Any officer of registration who, being duly appointed,
shall fail or refuse to qualify forthwith, or who, having qualified,
shall fail or refuse to perform any of the duties of his said office,
shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recov-
ered by indictment in a court having jurisdiction of the subject
matter.

Ibid. sec. 7.

7. The governor shall cause the books to be prepared at the
expense of the State, which shall be necessary for the use of the
said respective officers of registration, for the registration of the
names and facts required by this article to be registered; there
shall be thus provided for the purposes aforesaid, one registry of
voters and two poll-books or lists of qualified and registered
voters for each election precinct in the city of Baltimore, and one
registry of voters and two poll-books or lists of qualified and reg-
istered voters for each election district in each county in this
State, when such election district is not divided into election pre-
cincts; for each election district in any county in this State,
which is divided into election precincts, there shall be one reg-
istry of voters and two poll-books for each of the election pre-
cincts into which such election district is so divided; said regis-
tries of voters and said poll-books shall be uniform in their
general character, and shall each be of sufficient size for the uses
for which it is intended; each of the said registries of voters
shall be so arranged as to admit of the alphabetical classification
of the names to be recorded therein, and shall be ruled in parallel
columns for the entry of the following particulars: First, of the