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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and ninety, in the same manner and within the same time, and

copies thereof shall be furnished to the respective officers of regis-

tration by said board of supervisors of elections.

28. Each of the said respective clerks of the respective circuit

courts for the several counties of this State, and the clerk of the

superior court of Baltimore city, and each of the respective officers

of registration appointed under" this article and the board of su-

pervisors of elections in the city of Baltimore, and the sheriff of

each county in the State shall carefully and safely keep all books

named or referred to in this article which may come into his or

their custody under the provisions of this article during the times
appointed for his or their custody of such books; he or they shall

at all times permit examination of the same in his or their pres-

ence or in the presence of one or more of his or their deputies

Custody of

specially authorized for that purpose and not otherwise; he or

books, &c.

they shall not unless duly authorized by the order of the proper

judges or judge alter, mutilate or deface, or suffer any other per-

son to alter, mutilate or deface any of the said registries of vo-

ters; each of the said respective clerks when notified by the

sheriff of his county, or in case of the clerk of the superior court

of Baltimore city by the board of supervisors of elections in the

city of Baltimore, that any one or more of the registries of vo-

ters in the keeping of such clerk, is or are missing shall proceed

without delay to make or cause to be made a fair and accurate

copy or copies certified under his hand and the seal of his court

of said missing registries and deliver the same to said sheriff, or

to said board of supervisors of elections at lease twelve hours be-

fore the opening of the polls at the election next ensuing.

29. The sheriffs of the respective counties and the board of su-

pervisors of elections in the city of Baltimore shall respectively,

on or before the third day prior to each and every election ascer-

tain whether he has or they have in his or their possession all the

said registries committed to his or their custody; and if it shall

appear that one or more of said registries is or not in their pos-

Notifica-

session he or they shall without delay serve a written notification,

tion when
missing.

accurately describing the missing registry or registries on the
clerk of the court having the custody of the registry of voters or

registries of voters; that said registry or registries is or are not

in their possession, of the said sheriff or of said board of super-

visors of elections in the city of Baltimore; and said sheriff or

board of supervisors of elections aforesaid respectively, shall re-

ceive the said missing registry or registries when tendered to him

by said clerk; and said sheriff or board of supervisors of elec-

tions in the city of Baltimore respectively, shall deliver or cause

to be delivered on the day of each and every election at the polls

at or before the time of opening said polls to the judges of elec-

tion thereat within their respective jurisdiction, the duplicate