198 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 95

registration cards which may be hereafter prepared for use
in Baltimore City, or which may be prepared for use in the
several counties a column headed "Voted at Primary Elec-
tion, " shall be used; in each column such word "voted" or
letter "V" shall be hereafter entered at the primary election
at which such registry shall be used, and opposite the name
of each person voting.

201. Nominations for Mayor, comptroller, president of
the City Council and members of the City Council of Balti-
more shall be made by direct vote of the respective political
parties at primary elections to be held in all respects accord-
ing to the aforegoing provisions, applicable to primary elec-
tions in Baltimore City, except that the day for holding the
same shall be the first Tuesday of April of the year in which
the Municipal Elections in said City of Baltimore are to be
held on a different day from the general election. At every
general registration held in Baltimore City, and in each
and every county of the State, subsequent to April 11, 1910,
there shall be provided in the registration books or upon
the registration cards a distinct column headed "party
affiliations, " and the board of registers shall enter in this
column the name of the political party, if any, to which
the voter is inclined and with which the voter desires to
have himself recorded as affiliated. It shall be the duty of
the board of registry to explain to each voter that the
statement of such party affiliation does not bind Mm to vote
for the candidate of such party at any given election; also
that he has the right to decline to state any party affili-
ations; but that no one who is not recorded upon the
registry as affiliated with a particular political party will
be qualified to vote at subsequent primary elections of said
political party. Whenever a voter declines to state his party
affiliation, the word "declined" shall be written opposite his
name under such column, so that there shall be written in
such column opposite the name of every registered voter,
either his party affiliation or the word "declined. " And
in all primary elections thereafter held, any person so reg-
istered as affiliated with a given political party shall have
the right to vote the official ballot of that party and of
no other; and at any intermediate registration subsequent
to the close of the next general registration, such voter may
appear before the board of registry and, upon his identity
being established to the satisfaction of the majority of the
board of registry, to make, alter or strike out any entry in
the column headed "party affiliations" opposite his name in.
the registry; it shall be the duty of the board of registry