ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 1007

to the questions under the heads of each and all of the above
mentioned columns have been properly entered by the officers
in his presence in both registers, and not until then, he shall
be asked to sign his name upon the same line under the
column "signature" in each of them, and shall sign his name,
if he can do so. If however, he shall state his inability to do
so, or declines to do so, the officers shall make the entry, "can-
not write" or "declines," as the case may be, in the place for
such signature. The board of registry shall be entitled to
receive from the officers having custody thereof the last pre-
ceding registration books, for the purpose of comparison and
assistance in identification, and if any one shall apply for reg-
istration who appears in such former registry as disqualified,
his name shall be entered in the new registers, but he shall be
marked "disqualified," unless such grounds of disqualification
shall have been removed. At the end of the day's registry
said officers shall compare the two registers so kept, and cause
any errors in either of them to be corrected, by aid of the
entries in the other, so as to make the same agree where there
is any difference between them. Each of the said officers
having the custody of one of said registers shall then sign his
name or initials immediately under the last name registered
under each letter in the book kept by him, so that no new name
can be added without discovery. The said board of registry
shall keep on blanks to be provided for that purpose by the
board of supervisors of elections an alphabetical list of the
names, addresses and color of all persons registered, and a
separate list of all persons refused registration, and of all
persons whose names are erased from the registry. In the
city of Baltimore, at the end of each session, they shall deliver
these lists to the police officer on duty at the registration office,
and the list shall be delivered by the said officer to the police
board, and by the police board to the board of supervisors of
elections, in the forenoon of the day following the said sitting.
The board of supervisors for the city of Baltimore shall then
cause such list to be printed in bond-bill form, in plain long
primer type, and copies thereof posted within three days after
each session, in such manner that they may be easily read, in at
least ten prominent places in each precinct. Nothing in this sec-
tion or in the preceding section 16 as hereby re-enacted with
amendments shall affect the registration in the counties hereto-
fore made under this article nor require the furnishing of new
registry books in the counties, but the registry books now in
existence in the counties shall continue to be used as for as