HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 179

21. It shall be the duty of the police commissioner of
Baltimore City, between the first day of September and the
commencement of registration in each year, to and includ-
ing the year 1939, and between the fifteenth day of April
and the commencement of registration in the year 1940, to
cause a census as nearly as possible accurate, to be made
by members of the force under his command, of the legal
voters resident in each precinct of the said city. The said
census shall give the address of each person known or sup-
posed by the officer of police taking it to be a legal voter
of the city, and a copy thereof for their precinct shall be
furnished by the said police commissioner to each board of
registry when they meet on the first day of their sessions,
as hereinbefore provided. And the officer of police taking
the said census shall in every case be assigned to duty at the
office of registration in the precinct where he took the said
census, unless, for reasons stated in writing by the marshal
of police, and furnished to the board of registry in question,
such assignment shall be impracticable or against the public
interest.

After the first day of January, 1940, it shall be the duty of
said police commissioner to secure from the several patrol-
men (a) the name of every person above the age of twenty-
one years who shall have removed to or from any permanent
residence, whether in a dwelling-house, lodging-house, apart-
ment or hotel, upon their respective posts, (b) the sex of such
person, (c) the color of such person, (d) the address from
which such person shall have moved, (e) the address to which
such person shall have moved, and (f) the date of such removal,
and to furnish information as to the above facts, at least twice
in every month, beginning with the month of January, 1940,
to the Board of Supervisors of Election of Baltimore City.

26. At the end of the last session above provided for, the
said Board of Registry shall compare and correct the two
registers and make them agree, and the officers having them
respectively in their custody shall then immediately under the
last name registered under each letter of the registers sign
their names, so that no other names can be added without dis-
covery; all of said officers of registration shall then subscribe,
at the end of each register, a certificate, in substance, in the
words following: "We, the undersigned, constituting the Board
of Registry in............ precinct or district of............

county, or in............ precinct of the............ ward of

the city of............... in the State of Maryland, do jointly

and severally certify that, at the general registration of voters
in said precinct, closed on this.......... day of...........

there were registered by us, in said precinct, the names which