ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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uniform in their general character and shall each be of sufficient

size for the uses for which it is intended; each of the said registries

of voters shall be so arranged as to admit of the alphabetical classi-

fication of the names to be recorded therein, and shall be ruled in par-

allel columns for the entry of the following particulars: First, of

the name of the person applying to be registered; second, his color ;

third, whether sworn or, affirmed; fourth, his age; fifth, the place

of his birth; sixth the place of his actual residence or domicile by

street and number, if any; seventh, the time of his residence in the

city of Baltimore, and in the ward in which he shall apply to be

registered; or in the county and election district in which he

shall apply to be registered; eleventh, remarks; there shall also

be columns for the check mark showing that the voter has voted.

8. The governor shall cause to be delivered to the sheriff of each

county in this State before the second Monday of July, in the

year eighteen hundred and ninety, addressed to each officer of

registration of each election district in said county which is not

divided into election precincts, two of said registries of said voters

of sufficient size for the uses for which they are intended in said

election district; he shall cause to be delivered to the sheriff of

each county in this State before the day hereinbefore last named,

addressed to each officer of registration of each election district

in said county which is divided into election precincts, two of

said registries of voters for each of said election precincts of suffi-

cient size for the uses for which they are intended in said respec-

To deliver
the regis-

tive election precincts in which the names of all the registered

tries.

voters now contained in the registries, now in the custody of the

clerks of the several circuit courts shall be accurately transcribed

by said officers of registration respectively; and he shall also fur-

nish from time to time hereafter new registries to the several offi-

cers of registration whenever upon their requisition the same shall

be found to be needed; he shall cause to be delivered to the board

of supervisors of elections in the city of Baltimore, before the

second Monday of July, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety,

two of said registries of voters for each one of the several precincts

of the respective wards of said city addressed to the officers of

registration of said precincts respectively, of sufficient size for the

uses for which they are intended; each of said sheriffs and the

said board of supervisors of elections in the city of Baltimore shall
forthwith deliver the said respective registries of voters so de-

livered to them respectively by the governor to the respective offi-

cers of registration to whom they are respectively addressed; and

the said respective officers of registration on receiving the same

shall immediately receipt therefor to the governor and to the offi-

cers from whom they were respectively received; and it shall be

the duty of the governor when he shall send the several books

above required to the several officers of registration and to the

board of supervisors of elections in the city of Baltimore as re-