ART. 11.] FREDERICK. 1135

Frederick city, or to vote at any election thereafter held for mayor
or aldermen, or held by or under the municipal authority of Fred-
erick city for any other purpose.

1872, ch. 848.

162. Each of said officers of registration, before entering upon
the discharge of his duties, shall qualify before the clerk of the
circuit court for the county, by taking and subscribing the oath
prescribed in the sixth section of the first article of the constitution.

Ibid.

163. The register of the city of Frederick shall have a book
of registration prepared for the officer of registration for each of
said wards, and the said book shall be so ruled or printed as to
enable him to designate by the street, lane or alley, or other local
description, the residence of every person who shall register and
be entitled to vote in the said ward for mayor, aldermen, or for
any other purpose, at any election held by or under the municipal
authority of Frederick city; and after advertisement inserted once
a week for two weeks in at least one newspaper published in Fred-
erick city, and by hand-bills, or such other notice as he may deem
proper, of his intention so to do, he shall proceed, at some conve-
nient place in his ward, to be designated in his said advertisement,
at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning on the third Monday
of January, and annually thereafter, to open said book of regis-
tration, and the same keep open until five o'clock in the afternoon
of said day, for the purpose of registering all the qualified voters
of his said ward who shall be entitled under the provisions of this
sub-title of this article to be registered and to vote at any municipal
election held thereunder, and who shall apply for registration;
and he shall cause said list to be published in one newspaper pub-
lished in Frederick city, and also by hand-bills posted in such
public places in his ward as he may select.

Ibid.

164. For the purpose of correcting said books of registration
and said lists as published by the officers of registration, respec-
tively, they shall sit at some convenient place in their respective
wards, from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the