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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ment in all the newspapers in said county, and also

Give notice

by handbills posted in such election precincts in

of change.

which such changes shall have been made, as the

said officer of registration shall select.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That each of the said

respective officers of registration to whom, when sit-

ting at any time appointed by this act, and between

the hours appointed by this act for the registration

of qualified voters in his proper registry of voters

and poll-books or lists of qualified and registered

voters, or for the revision of his registry or registries

of voters and list or lists of qualified and registered

voters, an application is made by any male per-

son personally appearing before such officer of

registration, that his name shall be registered as a

qualified voter in any election precinct or in any

election district of which he is an officer of regis-

Name to be

tration, shall thereupon record in its proper column

recorded.

in the proper registry of voters for the election

precinct or election distriet of which he is an officer

of registration and in which the person applying to

be registered may have his legal residence, in the

proper alphabetical place of the surname of the

applicant, first, the exact name of such person, re-

cording the surname and first Christian name of the

said applicant in full; second, the color of the appli-

Administer

cant; third, he shall next administer to such person an

oath or affirma-

oath or affirmation that he will make true answers

tion.

to such questions as he, the said officer of registra-

tion, may propound to him, touching the right of

said applicant to be registered and to vote in the

election precinct or election district in which he has

applied to be registered, and shall enter in the

proper column, opposite to the name of the appli-

cant, the fact that such applicant has been so sworn

How to be

or affirmed; he shall next enter in the proper col-

entered.

umn, opposite to the name of the applicant, after

making full inquiry, the following particulars,

namely : fourth, the age of the applicant; fifth, the

place of his birth; sixth, the place of his residence,

recording the street, square, avenue, road or lane on

or near which he may so reside, and giving the num-

ber of his dwelling house, if it has any number, or

such description as shall be sufficient to identify

with certainty such place of residence and enable it

to be readily found; seventh, the time such appli-