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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

Chapter 22.

AN ACT to provide for the Uniform Registration

of the Names of all the Qualified Voters in this

State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Governor shall nomi-

nate and, by and with the advice and consent of the

Appoint offi-
cer of registra-
tion for coun-

Senate, appoint, at the present session of the Gen-
eral Assembly, one capable person in each election

ties.

district in every county in this State, who shall be

a voter and resident in the election district for

which he shall be appointed, to be an officer of reg-

istration for the said election district.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Gover-

nor shall also nominate and, by and with the advice

and consent of the Senate, appoint, at the present

Appoint offi-

session of the General Assembly, twenty capable

cers of regis-

persons from each of the three legislative districts

tration for Bal-
timore city.

into which the city of Baltimore was divided, on

the first day of January, in the year eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-two, to be officers of registration

in the said city of Baltimore for the respective elec-

tion precincts in which they shall be respectively

assigned to act; each of the persons so appointed

shall be a voter and resident in the legislative dis-

trict from which he was appointed, as said legisla-

tive district was constituted on the day hereinbe-

fore last named; when the wards of the city of Bal-

timore are newly divided, as directed by an act

passed at this session of the General Assembly, he

How assigned.

shall assign one of the officers of registration so ap-

pointed to each three of the nine election precincts

of which each ward in said city of Baltimore shall

then be composed; assigning to the three first elec-

tion precincts in each ward, as then laid out in the

regular order of their numbers, one of said officers

of registration; to the second three election pre-

cincts in each ward, as then laid out in the regular

order of their numbers, one of said officers of regis-

tration; and to the third three election precincts in

each ward, as then laid out in the regular order of

their numbers, one of the said officers of registra-

tion. The said Governor, in making said assign-