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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

quired by this section, also to send to be delivered to each of said

officers of registration a copy of sections one to thirty-nine B of

this article, which he is hereby authorized to have printed in

such form as he shall think best at the expense of the State.

9. The said officers of registration appointed for any precinct
of any ward in Baltimore city, shall endorse upon the back and

write at the head of each registry of voters delivered to them as

aforesaid, the number of the ward and the number or the election

precinct of which such books may ba respectively the registry of
voters; and shall sit for the purpose of ascertaining and register-

ing in the said two duplicate registries of voters of each of the

precincts of the ward of which they may be officers of registra-

tion at some place or places to be selected by them or a majority

of them as convenient as possible to all residents of said precinct

for five successive days in September and two successive days in

October in each year; said sittings to begin on the third Monday

of September and on the first Monday in October respectively ;

they shall also sit on the Wednesday next succeeding the first

Monday in October for revision, and for the hearing of applica-

tions for re-instatement by persons whose names shall have been

stricken off, said sittings to be called the September and October

sittings; the said respective officers of registration shall sit at said

several sittings in the city of Baltimore with open doors from

nine o'clock a. m. to nine o'clock p. m. on each day of their ses-

The time
of sittings

sions, and their proceedings while so sitting shall be public and open

to free inspection without any obstruction whatever; each of the

said officers of registration appointed for an election district in

any county of this State shall endorse upon the back and write

at the head of each registry of voters delivered to him as afore-

said, the name of the county and the number or name of the elec-

tion district, or the name of the county and the number or name

of the election district and of the election precinct in such election

district of such county of which he is an officer of registration,

of which such books may be respectively the registry of voters,

and shall sit for the purpose of ascertaining and registering in the

said two duplicate registries of voters, the persons qualified to vote

in the election district or in each of the election precincts of such

election district, if such election district be so divided, of which

he is an officer of registration for three successive days in Septem-

ber and four successive days in October in each year; said sit-

tings to begin on the third Monday of September and the first

Monday of October respectively; they shall also sit on the Mon-

day next succeeding the second Monday in October for revision

and for the hearing of applications for re-instatement by persons
whose names shall have been stricken off; said sittings shall be

called the September and October sittings; the said respective

officers of registration shall sit at said several sittings in the

several counties with open doors from eight o'clock, A. M., until