ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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registries pertaining to the election precinct or election district

over which said judges are to preside.

30. The respective judges of election shall receive from the

respective sheriffs of their respective counties or from the said

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

registries of qualified and registered voters pertaining to their

respective election precincts or election districts and preserve the

Registries
to be de-

same without alteration, mutilation or defacement while in their

livered

possession, and shall within two days after the close of their re-

spective polls in their respective election districts or election pre-

cincts return to said respective sheriffs or to the said board of su-

pervisors of elections in the city of Baltimore the said registries

of qualified and registered voters from them respectively received ;

and the said respective sheriffs and the said board of supervisors

of elections in the city of Baltimore shall upon so receiving the

same forthwith deliver the same to the clerks of the respective

courts from which the same were respectively received; the said

respective judges of shall not at any election receive or deposit in

the ballot-box the ballot of any person offering to vote until they

have found his name in the registry for their respective election

precincts or election districts, delivered to them for the purposes

of said election and shall be satisfied that the person so offering

Names to
be found

to vote is the person named in said list, and have checked it

thereon in the column ruled thereon for the purpose; and they

shall receive and deposit in the ballot-box the ballot of every per-

son offering to vote whose name appears in said respective regis-

tries.

31. Each of said officers of registration in Baltimore city shall

be entitled to receive thirty dollars per annum for the discharge

of his official duties exclusive of office rent and the cost of sta-

tionery; and each of said registration officers in the county shall

receive seventy-five dollars and no more per annum for the dis-

Salaries

charge of his official duties exclusive of office rent and the cost

and fees

of stationery; the said respective officers of registration shall be

paid the said compensation if appointed to act in the city of Bal-

timore by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and if ap-

pointed to act in any county of this State by the comity commis-

sioners of said county; the clerk of the superior court of Balti-

more city shall receive one cent for every ten words or figures of

any copy of any registry of voters or part of any registry of vo-

ters of any election precinct in said city, and such copy shall be

furnished by the said clerk within five days af ber the demand

therefor; the respective clerks of the respective circuit courts for

the respective counties shall receive the same compensation for

the same services; but the officers of registration shall not be en-

titled to charge or receive any fees for copies furnished by them

of the entries relating to the name of any person on their books