ART. 33] INTERMEDIATE REGISTRATION. 241

1890. ch. 202.

33. The place of any officer of registration who may be
absent on any day of registration or revision shall be filled by the
other members of the board then present, always selecting a per-
son of the same political party as the absent person, and the same
oath shall be administered by one of the members of said board,
then present to such temporary officer of registration as provided
in the case of the regular officers of registration; whenever the
regular officer shall return or be present, the temporary incum-
bent shall vacate his office. The appointment and swearing in of
all such substitutes, and the reasons therefor, and the time when
such substitutes began and ceased to serve as officers of registra-
tion, shall be noted by the board in the registers.

Ibid.

34. There shall not be a previous revision of the registry
before any special election, but at such election the registry
books as last prepared or revised shall be used. In the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, however, and every second
year thereafter, the books of registration for the city of Annapolis
shall be opened by the several boards of registry for the wards
or precincts thereof, on the second Monday, and the following
Tuesday in those years, for the purpose of registering new voters
and for the correction of said books of registration prior to the
the biennial municipal elections in said city in the month of July,
and of those sittings of the said boards of registry, ten days'
previous public notice shall be given by the board of supervisors
of Anne Arundel county, directed by section thirteen.

Ibid.

35. The board of supervisors of elections, the board of registry
and each member of said board of registry shall, without fee or
reward, whenever the said registers, or any one of them, in its or
his custody, permit the same to be freely inspected by anyone
wishing so to do, such inspections shall be made in the presence
of a member or members of the said board of supervisors, or of
one of their clerks, or of the said board of registry, or of those
members of the board of registry, in whose custody the said
registers may be, and not otherwise. Said board of supervisors
and said board of registry shall, upon application, furnish a copy
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