646 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.

board of police commissioners for the city of Baltimore, the lists
of qualified and registered voters pertaining to their respective
election precincts or election districts, and preserve the same with-
out alteration, mutilation or defacement, while in their possession;,
and shall, within two days after the close of their respective polls,
in their respective election districts or election precincts, return to-
said respective sheriffs, or to the said board of police commission-
ers for the city of Baltimore, the said respective lists of qualified
and registered voters from them respectively received; and the
said respective sheriffs and the said board of pollce commissioners,
for the city of Baltimore shall, upon so receiving the same, forth-
with deliver the same to the clerks of the respective courts from
which the same were respectively received. The said respective-
judges of election shall not at any election receive or deposit in
the ballot-box the ballot of any person offering to vote until they
Lave found his name in the list of qualified and registered voters
for their respective election precincts or election districts, deliv-
ered to them for the purposes of said election, and shall be satisfied
that the person so offering to vote is the person named in said list,
and have checked it thereon; and they shall receive and deposit,
in the ballot-box the ballot of every person offering to vote whose
name appears in said respective lists of qualified and registered,
voters.

1882, ch. 22, sec. 32. 1888, ch. 155, sec. 4.

31. Each of said officers of registration in Baltimore city shall
be entitled to receive four dollars per day for every day he shall
be engaged in the discharge of his official duties, exclusive of
office rent and the cost of stationery; and each of said registra-
tion officers in the counties shall receive a per diem of four dollars
for every day he shall be engaged in the discharge of his official
duties. The said respective officers of registration shall be paid,
the said compensation if appointed to act in the city of Baitimore,
by the mayor and city council of Baitimore; and if appointed to
act in any county of this State, by the county commissioners of
said county. The clerk of the superior court of Baitimore city
shall receive one cent for every ten words or figures of any copy
of any list or part of any list of the qualified and registered voters