1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1828

break the seals of any package or abstract any ballot
the refrom or have any such ballot except for the law-
ful purposes in this Act provided, in his possession
before or during an election shall be punished by a
fine of not less than five or more than three hundred
dollars or shall be imprisoned in jail for not less than
thirty days nor more than one year or by both such
fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.

"Sec. 16. And at every general registration held in
Montgomery county subsequent to the passage of this
Act there shall be provided in the registration books
an additional column headed affiliation, and the Board
of Registry shall enter into this column the name of
the political party, if any, to which the voter is in-
clined and with which the voter desired to have him-
self recorded as affiliated. It shall be the duty of the
Board of Registry to explain to the voter that the
statement of the said party affiliation does not bind
him to vote for the candidates of said party at any
given election; also that he has the right to decline to
state any party affiliation, but that no one who is not-
recorded upon the registration book as affiliated with
a particular political party will be qualified to vote at
subsequent primary elections ol said political party.
Whenever the voter declines to state his party affili-
ation the word 'declined,' shall be written opposite
the name under said column, so that there shall be
written in each column opposite the name of each reg-
istered voter either his party affiliation or the word
"declined" and in all primary elections held in the
year 1907 and biennially thereafter any person so
registered as affiliated with the given political party
shall have the right to receive and vote the ballot of
that party and of no other, and at any intermediate
registration subsequent to the general registration in
1907 such voter may appear before the board of regis-
ry and upon his identity being established to a ma-
jority of the board of registry he shall have the right
to require the said board of registry to make, alter or
strike out any entry in the column headed "Affilia-
tion" opposite his name on the registration book. It
shall be the duty of the board of registers, to enter in