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for the first general registration, and thereupon the same pro-
ceedings shall be had and the same forms and methods shall
be used as in case of similar petitions under the said section 24.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 33.

37. 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 person 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 registra-
tion, as provided in the case of the regular officers of registra-
tion; whenever the regular officer shall return or be present
the temporary incumbent shall vacate his office. The appoint-
ment 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 registration shall be noted by the board
in the registers.

Ibid. sec. 34.

38. 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 Annap-
olis shall be open by the several boards of registry for the
wards or precincts thereof on the second Monday and the fol-
lowing Tuesday in those years, for the purpose of registering
new voters and for the correction of said books of registration
prior to 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 14.

Ibid. sec. 35.

39. The board of supervisors of elections, the board of reg-
istry 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
any one wishing so to do; such inspections shall be made in the
presencft.of a member or members of the said board of super-
visors or one of their clerks, or of the said board of registry,
or of those members of the board of registry in whose custody