ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 1005

1896, ch. 202, sec 16. 1901, ch. 2.

17. On Tuesday, seven weeks preceding the election to be
held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
1896, which shall occur after the enactment of this article,
each board of registry shall meet at the place designated by
its board of supervisors of elections, and shall proceed to
make a general registration of all the voters in its precinct or
district, as the case may be. The proceedings of each board
of registry shall be as follows: 1. They shall open the registry
in the city of Baltimore at nine o'clock A. M. and continue in
session until nine o'clock P. M. on the Tuesday aforesaid. In
the counties the hours of session shall be from eight o'clock
A M. to eight o'clock P. M. One of the officers of registration
shall administer to all persons who shall personally apply to
register the following oath or affirmation: "You do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that you will fully and truly answer all such
questions as shall be put to you touching your place of resi-
dence, name, place of birth, your qualifications as a voter, and
your right as such to register and vote under the laws of this
State." 2. The two officers of registration designated by the
supervisors to have the custody of the two registry books, or
such of their colleagues as each of them may respectively ask
to temporarily replace him in the discharge of this duty, shall
make the entries therein required by this article, and the ques-
tions as to qualifications shall be asked by the other officers of
said board. 3. The name and age of every applicant shall be
entered in such registry books, and all the facts of his applica-
tion shall be therein stated as herein provided, whether he be
entitled to vote or not. If it shall be determined by the board
that he is not a qualified voter in the precinct, then an entry
shall be made in the appropriate column, "no," and aline shall
be drawn in red ink through his name and through all the other
entries on the line on which his name is written, but so that
the name and said other entries shall remain legible, and if
qualified, an entry shall be made in the same column, "yes."
4. Only persons constitutionally qualified to vote in the pre-
cinct at the next election, and personally applying for registra-
tion shall be registered as qualified voters. 5. The headings
to the registry books shall be so prepared that the registry
shall be made alphabetical, according to the surname of each
person applying, and so that the residence and postoffice
address of such persons shall appear in the first column. The
registers shall be ruled, and one name shall be written on each
line, but no names shall be written between the lines. The