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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

spectively officers of registration, shall thereupon record in its

proper column in each of the proper duplicate registries of voters

for the election precinct or election district of which they are

respectively officers of registration, and in which the person ap-

plying to be registered may have his legal residence, in the proper

alphabetical place of the surname of the applicant, first, the exact

name of such person,'recording the surname and the first Chris-

tian name of the said applicant in full; second, the color of the

applicant; third, they shall next administer to such person an

oath or affirmation that he will make true answers to such ques-

tions as they, the said officers of registration may propound to him

touching the right of said applicant to be registered, and to vote in
the election precinct or the election district in which he has applied

to be registered, and shall enter in the proper column opposite the

name of the applicant the fact that such applicant has been so

sworn or affirmed; they shall next enter in the proper column in

each of said duplicate registries, opposite to the name of the appli-
cant after making full inquiry the following particulars, namely :
fourth, the age of the applicant; fifth, the place of his birth; sixth,
the place of his residence or domicile, recording the street, square,

avenue, road or lane, on or near which he may so reside, and giving

the number of his dwelling-house, if it has any number, or such

description as shall be sufficient to identify with certainty, such

Registries
to contain

place of residence or domicile and enable it to be readily found ;

seventh, the time such applicant has resided in the city of Balti-

more, and in the election precinct and ward in which he applies

to be registered, or in the county and in the election district of

the county, or election precinct of such district if it be so divided

in which he applies to be registered; eight, if naturalized, the

date of his final papers or certificate of naturalization aud a

minute of the court by which the same was issued; ninth and

tenth, if it is found upon such examination that the applicant

possesses, or before the day of the election next ensuing, will pos-

sess the requisite qualifications under the constitution of Mary-

land and the laws made in pursuance thereof, that is to say, that

he is of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, or that he will be

of the age of twenty-one years on or before the day of the election

next ensuing, and that he has been a resident of the State for one

year, and of the legislative district of Baltimore city or of the

county in which he may offer to vote for six months next preced-

ing the election, and that he is not disqualified under the pro-

visions of the second and third sections of the first article of the

constitution of this State, and that the said person has not been

registered under the provisions of this article in any other election

precinct or election district of this State, the said applicant shall

be entered forthwith by said officers of registration in the presence

of said applicant as a qualified voter by recording his name in the

same manner in which it was first recorded in the proper column