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LAAVS OF MARYLAND.

they shall next administer to such person an oath or

affirmation that he will make true answers to such questions

Right

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

to be

Regis-

him, touching the right of said applicant to be registered,

tered.

and to vote in the ward in which he has applied to be

registered, a'nd 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 applicant, 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 place of residence or domicile and

enable it to be readily found ; seventh, the time such appli-

cant has resided in the city of Hagerstown and in the ward

Naturali-

in which he applies to be registered ; eighth, if naturalized,

zation.

the date of his final papers or certificate of naturalization

and a minute of the court by wliicli 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 Avill possess the requisite qualifica-

tions, under the Constitution of Maryland, the charter of

Hagerstown and the laws made in pursuance thereof, that

is to say, that he is of the age of twenty-one years or

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

on or before the day of election next ensuing, and that he

has been a resident of Hagerstown for one year, and of the

ward in which he may offer to vote for six months next

preceding the election, and that he is not disqualified under

the provisions of the second and third sections of the first

article of the Constitution of this State, and that the said

person has not beeu registered under the provisions of this

article in auy other ward of said city of Hagerstown, the

said applicant shall be entered forthwith by said offi-

cers of registration in the presence of said applicant as a

.

qualified voter by recording his name in the same manner

in which it Avas first recorded in the proper column of each

of the proper duplicate registries of voters under the head

of "qualified voter." If the applicant is found to be dis-

qualified as a voter in the ward in which he shall apply to

If found

be registered, a line shall be heavily drawn in ink opposite

to be
Disquali-

to his name uuder the head of "qualified voters," and the

fied

cause of his disqualifications shall be briefly stated oppo-

site to his name as first recorded under the head of " disquali-