626 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.

of voters and poll-books so delivered to them respectively by the
governor, to the respective officers of registration to whom they
are respectively addressed; and the said respective officers of reg-
istration, on receiving the same, shall immediately receipt therefor
to the governor, and to the officers from whom they were respec-
tively received; and it shall be the duty of the governor, when he
shall send the several books above required to the several officers
of registration, as required by this section, also to send, to be de-
livered to each of said officers of registration, a copy of sections
1-39 of this article, which he is hereby authorized to have printed
in such form as he thinks best, at the expense of the State.

1884, ch. 467, sec. 9. 1888, ch. 155, sec. 3.

9. The said officers of registration appointed for any precinct
of any ward in Baltimore city, shall endorse upon the back and
write at the head of each registry of voters, and of each poll-
book delivered to them as aforesaid, the number of the ward and
the number of the election precinct of which such books may be
respectively the registry of voters and poll-book; and shall sit for
the purpose of ascertaining and registering in the proper registry
of voters and proper poll-books of each of the precincts of the ward
of which they may be officers of registration, at some place or
places to be selected by them, or a majority of them, as con-
venient as possible to all the residents of said precinct, from the
second Monday in May in every year in which an election shall
be held in said city of Baltimore, inclusive of said days, for two
successive days, and for the same number of days in each of the
several months of June, July and September, beginning on the
second Monday of each of said several months, and for two days
in the month of October, beginning on the first day of said
month, unless the first day should happen to be Sunday, in
which case said sitting shall begin on the second day of said
month in every year in which an election shall be held in said
city. Said sittings shall be respectively called the May, June,
July, September and October sittings. The said respective offi-
cers of registration shall sit at said several sittings in the city of
Baltimore with open doors from ten o'clock A. M. to ten o'clock
F. M., on each day of their sessions, and their proceedings,
whilst so sitting, shall be public and open to free inspection,
without any obstruction whatever.