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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said, and to vote therein until he shall reside in the

district which he shall have removed to and remained

in a sufficient time to entitle him to register therein ;

and the said officer of registration, before registering

Administer

any person as a qualified voter, shall administer to

oath.

him the following oath : " I do solemnly swear (or

affirm) that I will true answers make to all questions

necessary to ascertain my qualifications or disquali-

fications, under the constitution, to be registered as

a qualified voter;" but nothing in said oath or affirma-
tion contained shall be construed to authorize said

register to ask any questions touching any cause of

disqualification not expressly enumerated in the con-

stitution of Maryland or of the United States ; and

no person shall be permitted to register who is dis-

qualified under any of the provisions of the consti-

tution of Maryland, except in relation to color ; and

the registrars 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 registrars for the ten wards

of said city, except that the publication of the lists

of voters shall be made by handbills distributed in

their respective districts, instead of by printing in

the newspapers, as now directed.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 465.

AN ACT to incorporate the Bank of Centreville,

in Centreville, Queen Anne's county, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Constituted
and made a

of Maryland, That "William McKenney, John B.
Brown, Richard B. Carmichacl, Richard T. Earle,

body corpo-

James B. Palmer, J. Kersey Hall, William H.

rate.

Jarrell, James Bordley, William H. Newnam,

Budd S. Ford and William W. Busteed, their sur-