FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1)

(or affirm) that I will true answers make to all questions

necessary to ascertain my qualifications or disqualifications,

under the constitution to be registered as a qualified voter ;

but nothing in the oath or affirmation contained shall be

construed to authorize the register to ask any questions

touching any cause of disqualifications not expressly

enumerated in the Constitution of Maryland, or of the

United States ; and no person shall be permitted to register

who is disqualified under any of the provisions of the Con-

stitution of Maryland, except in relation to color ; and the

registers of voters so appointed as aforesaid shall have the

same qualifications and shall perform their duties in their

several aldermanic districts as are now required of the

registers for the ten wards of the city, except that the pub-

lication of the list of voters shall be made by hand-bills dis-

tributed in their respective districts, instead of by printing

in the newspapers aa heretofore directed.

SEC. 163. The register of the City of Frederick shall have

a book of registration prepared for the officers of registration

Register.

for each of said wards, and the said books shall be so ruled

or printed as to enable him to designate by the street, lane

or alley or other local description, the residence of every

person who shall register and be entitled to vote in the said

ward for Mayor, Aldermen, or for any other purpose at any

election held by or under the municipal authority of Fred-

erick City ; and after advertisement inserted once a week for

two weeks in at least one newspaper published in Frederick

City, and by hand-bills or such other notice as he may deem

proper, of Ms intention so to do, he shall proceed at some

convenient place in his ward, to be designated in his said

advertisement, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, on

first Wednesday in May, and tri-annually thereafter to open

Time to
Register.

said book of registration, and the same kept open until five

o'clock in the afternoon of said day for the purpose of regis-

tering all the qualified voters of his said ward who shall be

entitled under the provisions of this sub-title of this article

to be registered and to vote at any municipal election held

thereunder and who shall apply for registration ; and he

shall cause said list to be published in one newspaper, pub-

lished in Frederick City, and also by hand-bills posted in

such public places in his ward as he may select.

And no voter who has been once registered shall be enti-

tled to be registered in another aldermanic district, until

Certi-

he has produced a certificate from the register certifying

ficate

that he has been stricken from the books of the aldermanic

district in which he was formerly registered.

SEC. 104. For the purpose of correcting said books of reg-

istration, and said list as published by the officers of regis-