ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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eight o'clock, P. M., on each day of their sessions, and their pro-

ceedings shall be public and open to free inspection without any

obstruction whatever; if the election district of which he is ap-

pointed an officer of registration is not divided into election pre-

cincts he shall at his sittings in the year eighteen hundred and

ninety, and at his sittings in each year thereafter sit for the pur-

pose aforesaid in one or more places, not exceeding in all three in-

number, in his election district convenient respectively to the

residents of the different sections of said election district, and

shall sit at each of said places on so many of the days designated

by this section for his said respective sittings, or for parts of so

many of such days as will suffice to afford an opportunity for as-

certaining and registering the qualified voters of said different

sections of his said election district, and of his whole election

district; if the said election district for which he is appointed an

officer of registration, is or shall be divided into election pre-

cincts, he shall at his sittings in the year eighteen hundred and

ninety and at his sittings each year thereafter sit at some place
in each of said election precincts convenient to the residents

thereof on so many of the days designated by this section for his

said respective sittings, or for parts of so many of such days as

will suffice to afford an opportunity for ascertaining and register-

ing the qualified voters in each of said election precincts; the

sittings shall be held at such one place in his election district as

may be convenient to the greater number of the residents thereof;

Notice of

and in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and every second

sittings.

year thereafter, the books of registration for the city of Annapolis,

shall be opened by the register of voters of that city on the second

Monday and second Tuesday of June in those years, for the pur-

pose of registering new voters and for the corrections of said lists,

prior to the biennial municipal elections in said city in the month

of July, and of which sittings five days' previous public notice

shall be given, and the clerk of the circuit court f or Anne Arundel

county shall deliver said books of registration to the officer of

registration when demanded by him immediately prior to said

sitting in the month of June as above provided; and when said

registration and correction of lists are concluded by said officer of

registration, he shall return the same to said clerk as provided

for after the regular annual sittings, and said clerk shall prepare

the lists of qualified voters for the said July elections.

14. The said respective officers of registration to whom, when

sitting at any time appointed by this article, and between the

lours appointed by this article for the registration of qualified

voters in their proper registries of voters, or for the revision of

their registry or registries of voters, an application is made by

any person personally appearing before such officers of registra-

tion, that his name shall be registered as a qualified voter in any

election precinct or in any election district of which they are re-