644 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.

1882, ch. 22, sec. 28. 1888, ch. 155, sec. 12.

27. Within one month before the time hereinafter provided
for the sitting in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, of
the officers of registration appointed in the city of Baltimore
under the provisions of this article, the board of police commis-
sioners for the city of Baltimore shall cause a census of the;
qualified voters in each of the election precincts into which the
several wards of Baltimore city shall then be divided, to be made
by their police officers, and to be returned by said officers to the
said board; and the said board shall furnish a copy of the list of
qualified voters so returned as resident in each election precinct
of said city to the officers of registration for such election pre-
cinct, on or before the day of the May sitting of said officers of
registration, and such census shall be made and returned after
the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in the same manner
and within the same time before the May sitting of said officers
of registration in said city occurring before each election of
members of the general assembly; and copies thereof shall be
furnished to the respective officers of registration in like manner
as aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 29.

28. Each of the said respective clerks of the respective circuit
courts for the several counties of this State, and the clerk of the
superior court of Baltimore city, and each of the respective offi-
cers of registration appointed under this article, and the board of
police commissioners for the city of Baltimore, and the sheriff of
each county in the State, shall carefully and safely keep all books
or lists named or referred to in this article which may come into
his or their custody under the provisions of this article during the
times appointed for his or their custody of such books or lists;
he or they shall at all times permit examination of the same in
his or their presence, or in the presence of one or more of his or
their deputies specially authorized for that purpose, and not
otherwise; he or they shall not, unless duly authorized by the
order of the proper judges or judge, alter, mutilate or deface, or
suffer any other person to alter, mutilate or deface, any of the
said lists of qualified and registered voters or registries of voters;
each of the said respective clerks, when notified by the sheriff of
his county, or, in the case of the clerk of the superior court of