HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 17

appear at a hearing; and providing for hearings on such
applications by the Permanent Board of Registry; providing
for the appointment of additional boards of election officers
to hear such applications, under certain circumstances, and
providing for an appeal from the action of any Board upon
any such application, to the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County; and providing for a change in the time within which
persons may register, change party affiliation, or transfer
their registration, at the office of the Board of Supervisors
of Elections of Montgomery County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 29D and 29G of Article 33 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Elections", sub-
title "Registration", as said sections were enacted by Chapter
154 of the Acts of the Extraordinary Session of 1936, be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

29D. In Montgomery County on and after January 1, 1938,
persons qualified to register, to change their party affiliation
or to transfer, may register, change their party affiliation
or transfer, at the office of the Board of Supervisors of
Elections at any time such office is open, except thirty days
preceding or ten days following a primary election or a gen-
eral or special election. A change in party affiliation or re-
moval to another precinct within the County, as the case may
be, may be made either by written notice by mail or by calling
in person at the Board's office. Upon receiving written notice
for change of party affiliation or of removal to another pre-
cinct, the Board shall cause the signatures to be compared
with the original registration form of such applicant, and if
such signature appears to be the same, entry of such change
of residence or affiliation on the original and duplicate regis-
tration cards or forms shall be made. Such registrant shall;
thereupon be immediately notified by mail of the change so.
made. If the Board is not satisfied as to the signature on the
written notice, or that the change should be made, notice shall
shall be sent the applicant by mail directing him or her to
appear at the office of the Board to answer such questions
under oath as may be deemed necessary.

For the purpose of enabling persons to register in this
manner in Montgomery County the clerk to the Board of Sup-
ervisors of Elections of said County, and one person who shall
be appointed by the Governor in the same manner and on the
same terms and condition as the Supervisors of Elections are
appointed and who shall belong to the other leading political
party from that to Which the clerk to the Board of Supervisors'