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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

election, and shall be satisfied that the person so offering

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 person offering to vote whose name appears in said

respective registries.

SEC. 159 V. Each officer of registration appointed under

Officers of
Regis-

the provisions of this article shall receive sixteen dollars,

tration to

and no more, per annum for the discharge of his official

receive wit
per

duties, exclusive of office rent and the cost of stati6n-

annum.&c

ery. The clerk of the court shall receive one cent for

every ten words or figures of any copy of any registry of

voters, or part of any registry of, voters, of any ward, and

such copy shall be furnished by the said clerk within

five days after the demand therefor, but the officers of

legistration shall not be entitled to charge or receive any

fees for copies furnished by them of the entries relating to

the name of any person on their books of registration, but

may have printed blanks for such purpose, to be paid for

as a part of the necessary stationery of their office. The

Necessary

necessary expenses incurred by said respective officers of

Expenses

registration for books, stationary, fuel, office rent and for

publication of the notices and lists which are by this article

required to be publislied shall be paid by the Mayor aud

Council of Hagerstown; provided that no more than five

dollars be expended by each register for office rent and fuel,

the accounts of the said respective officers of registration

shall be verified by vouchers and be subject respectively to

the approval of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown.

City

SEC. 159 W. It shall be the duty of the city attorney of

Attorney,
Duty of.

Hagerstown to advise and appear for the officers of regis-
tration appointed in conformity with the provisions of this

article and for the clerk of the Circuit Court; said city

attorney shall be paid by the mayor and council of Hagers-

town, twenty-five dollars per annum for such services ; and

said city attorney shall prepare for publication the necessary

notices to be given by the registers in each and every year

of the times and places of the sittings of said register.

SEC. 159 X. If any officer of registration shall fraudu-

lently register or fraudulently permit to be registered in

Fraudu-

any registry of voters in his charge as officers of registration,

lent Acts

any person who is not entitled to be registered therein as a

of Regis-
tration

qualified voter, or if any other person not authorized by the

Officer

proper judges shall inscribe the name of auy person as a quali-

fied and registered voter in any registry of voters, or if any

officer of registration shall fraudulently refuse or omit to regis-

ter, or shall fraudulently misspell in any registry of voters in