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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ward number one in said city of Hagerstown ; the second,

Wards.

ward number two; the third, ward number three; the

fourth, ward number four; the fifth, ward number five ; the

words ward and registration district herein to be construed

as convertible terms'.

SEC. 159 B. The Governor shall on or before the third

Monday of February, in the year eighteen hundred and

Officers of
Registra-

ninety-two, appoint one person as officer of registration, in

tion.

each registration district of the city of Hagerstown, who

shall be a resident of the district for which he is appointed,

and the said officer of registration shall register in books,

Qualifica-
tions

to be prepared for the purpose, all male citizens above the

to Vote.

age of twenty-one years, who shall have the requisite quali-

fications to entitle them to vote for mayor. Every male

person who shall have resided in the State of Maryland,

and in said Hagerstown for twelve months, and in the

ward wherein he offered to register six months next preced-

Proviso

ing the election, shall be entitled to be registered, provided

always that where any person shall be legally registered in

any of said wards and shall remove therefrom to any other

of said wards, and remain therein, he shall be entitled to

have his name remain on the registry list of the ward from

which he shall remove as aforesaid, and to vote therein until

he shall reside in the ward to which he shall have removed

and remain therein a sufficient time to entitle him to regis-

ter therein. ,

SEC. 159 C. Each of the said officers of registration shall

Power

have in addition to the other powers hereinafter conferred

upon them, the power of a justice of the peace to preserve

order and enforce obedience to his lawful commands at or

around his place of registration ; to keep the access to such

place open and unobstructed, to prevent and suppress riots,

tumults, violence and disorder, and all other improper

practices at, around or near to his place of registration,

tending to intimidation or to the obstruction of the work of

registration, or the revision of the registration, and to pro-

tect and keep safe the registries of voters hereinafter re-

ferred to while in his custody and possession; he may com-

pel the presence of witnesses before him while sitting as an

Summons
or

officer of registration for all purposes connected with the

Attach-
ment.

performance of the duties of his office by summons or attach-

ment; he may, while sitting as such officer of registration,

commit for trial any person committing at, or around his

place of registration any offense forbidden by this article ;

he shall have the power to issue any of said summons,

attachments or commitments to any police officer of the city

of Hagerstown ; all such processes shall be served by said