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Baltimore city, by the board of police commissioners for the city
of Baltimore, that any one or more of the lists of voters com-
mitted to the custody of such sheriff or of such board, contained
in any registry of voters in the keeping of such clerk, is or are
missing, shall proceed without delay to make, or cause to be
made, a fair and accurate copy or copies, certified under his hand
and the seal of his court, of said missing list or lists, and deliver
the same to said sheriff or to said board of police commissioners
at least twelve hours before the opening of the polls at the elec-
tion next ensuing.

1882, ch. 22, sec. 30.

29. The sheriffs of the respective counties and the board of

police commissioners for the city of Baltimore shall, respectively,
on or before the third day prior to each and every election, ascer-
tain whether he has or they have in his or their possession, all the

copies of said lists committed to his or their custody; and if it

shall appear that one or more of said lists is or are not in his or
their possession, he or they shall without delay serve a written
notification, accurately describing the missing list or lists, on the
clerk of the court having the custody of the registry of voters or
registries of voters from which such missing list or lists was or
were made up, or of such original list or lists, that said list or
lists is or are not in the possession of the said sheriff or of said
board of police commissioners for the city of Baltimore; and said
sheriff or board of police commissioners aforesaid, respectively,
shall receive the copy or copies of said missing list or lists when
tendered to him by said clerk; and said sheriff or board of
police commissioners for the city of Baltimore, respectively, shall
deliver, or cause to be delivered, on the day of each and every

election, at the polls, at or before the time of opening of said
polls, to the judges of election thereat, within their respective
jurisdictions, a copy of the list of qualified and registered voters
pertaining to the election precinct or election district over which
said judges are to preside.

Ibid. sec. 31.

30. The respective judges of election shall receive from the
respective sheriffs of their respective counties, or from the said