ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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22. For the purposes of any new or special election to be held

in this State in any year the registries of voters in the several elec-

tion districts and election precincts of this State which were re-

turned to the respective proper clerks of courts in this State, sub-
sequent to the last preceding October sittings of the respective
officers of registration, subject to such corrections as may be made

Registries
for special
election.

in them respectively by the order of the proper judges or judge

as hereinbefore provided, shall be the registries of voters in the

several election precincts of the State for the purposes of said new

or special election.

23. No officer of registration in this State shall register any

name in any registry of voters of which he may have the custody

as officer of registration, or strike any name from any such reg-

Changes of

istry of voters or make any other entry in any such registry of

registries,
when

voters, except upon a day appointed by this article for a public

made.

sitting of such officers of registration, nor except between the

hours appointed by this article for his sittings on such day, except

by or under the order of the proper judges or judge as in this ar-

ticle provided.

24. A copy of any registry of voters relating to a particular

person or to particular persons, certified by the clerk of the cir-

cuit court in whose custody such registry of voters may then be

under his hand and the seal of his court, or certified by the offi-

Copies to
be evi-

cers of registration in whose custody such registry of voters may

dence.

then be by his own hand and by his official title referring to said

registry of which it purports to be a copy in whole or in part, so

accurately as fully to identify the same, shall be evidence in any

court or before any judges or judge of this State or before any

officer of registration of the matter set forth and contained in

such copy.

25. Every person whose name shall appear in said respective

duplicate registries as amended by the order of the proper judges

Entitled to

or judge as hereinbefore provided, shall be entitled to vote in the

vote.

election precinct or election district in which he is so registered

at every election held thereafter until another registration of

voters or correction thereof has been duly made and completed.

27. On or before the first Monday of September, eighteen

hundred and ninety, the board of police commissioners for the

city of Baltimore shall cause a census of the qualified voters in

Baltimore

each of the election precincts into which the several wards of

police com
missioners

Baltimore city shall then be divided to be made by their police

to furnish

officers and to be returned by said officers to the said board, and

copies.

the said board shall furnish a copy of the list of qualified voters

so returned as residents in each election precinct of said city to

the board of supervisors of elections in the city of Baltimore, on

or before the second Monday of September, and such census shall

be made and returned biennially after the year eighteen hundred