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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

question and to enter the applicant in the proper

registry of voters as a qualified voter or as disquali-

fied; but it is expressly hereby declared and set

forth that nothing herein contained shall be con-

How con-
strued.

strued as authorizing any of said officers of regis-

tration to ask any question of or concerning any

applicant for registration as a qualified voter touch-

ing any cause of disqualification not expressly

enumerated in the constitution of this State.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That when any offi-

cer of registration shall at any of his appointed sit-

tings in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two,

enter in his proper registry of voters of any elec-

tion precinct or election district, of which he is an

officer of registration, the name of" any applicant

Enter alpha-

for registration as a qualified voter, he shall imme-

betically

diately thereafter enter in the presence of the appli-

cant, if he is in attendance, in its proper alphabeti-

cal place, in both of the poll-books, or lists of quali-

fied and registered voters of such election precinct

or election district, the name and residence of said

applicant as the same are recorded in said registry

of voters.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That each officer of

registration appointed for a group of election pre-

cincts in any ward of the city of Baltimore shall,

within six days after the close of his October sitting,

in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, de-

Deliver regis-

liver to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Balti-

try of voters.

more city, the registry of voters and the two poll-

books, so completed as aforesaid, of each of the elec-

tion precincts of which he is an officer of registra-

tion, and shall append to each of said poll-books,

before so delivering the same, a certificate signed by

said officer of registration, and verified by his oath

or affirmation that the said poll-book is a complete

list of the qualified and registered voters in said

election precinct, and of the residence of each of

said qualified and registered voters, as the same are

recorded in the registry of voters of such election

precinct as then made up; and that the entries in

the said registry of voters of the names and resi-

dences of the persons shown thereby to be qualified

voters were made bona fide and according to the

requirements of this act, and that no name has been

omitted from or added to said registry of voters or